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Ed Reed - I'm A Shy Guy: A Tribute to the King Cole Trio & Their Music

Label: Blue Shorts Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: I Just Can’t See For Lookin’; Baby Baby All The Time; Unforgettable; Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby; I’m A Shy Guy; That’s The Beginning Of The End; Meet Me At No Special Place; I’m Lost; ‘Tis Autumn; It’s Only A Paper Moon; That Ain’t Right; I Realize Right; This Will Make You Laugh; Straighten Up And Fly Right.

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Ed Reed: Ed Reed - I'm A Shy Guy: A Tribute to the King Cole Trio & Their Music

Read "Ed Reed - I'm A Shy Guy: A Tribute to the King Cole Trio & Their Music" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


San Francisco vocalist Ed Reed is a bona fide contemporary of West Coast jazz luminaries: Art Pepper, Frank Morgan, Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray and Hampton Hawes. Unlike that august group, Reed remains to tell his story, and by proxy, theirs' in the bargain. Like this same group, drugs (and in the case of Gray, murder) suspended ...

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Born to Be Blue

Label: Blue Shorts Records
Released: 2011

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Ed Reed: Born to Be Blue

Read "Born to Be Blue" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Ed Reed joins fellow West Coasters Art Pepper and Frank Morgan in returning to a critically acclaimed career previously derailed by substance abuse. After 40 years of scuffling, Reed cleaned up, became a chemical dependency treatment professional and began recording in earnest. Reed has released two recordings, Love Stories (Self Produced, 2007) and The Song is ...

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The Song Is You

Label: Blue Shorts Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: The Song Is You; It Shouldn't Happen to a Dream; Where or When; I'm Through With Love; All Too Soon; I Get Along Without You Very Well; I Didn't Know About You; Don't You Know I Care; Lucky to Be Me; Don't Like Goodbyes; It Never Entered My Mind; Here's to Life; Black Is.

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Ed Reed: The Song Is You

Read "The Song Is You" reviewed by Elliott Simon


Ed Reed is a storyteller, one who pours both his heart and nearly 80 years of life experiences--which include vocal studies with Charles Mingus, time in the army and a drug addiction that landed Reed in prison on four separate occasions--into a phrase. On his recent first recording, Love Stories (2007), he debuted a lush tone ...


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