Results for "Ed Reed"

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Celebrate songwriters Abbey Lincoln and Bernice Petkere

by Mary Foster Conklin
September 8, 2018

Many special birthdays in this episode of A Broad Spectrum as we honor the great Abbey Lincoln and remember Bernice Petkere, named the “Queen of Tin Pan Alley" by Irving Berlin for her songs “Close Your Eyes" and “"Lullaby of the Leaves." Playlist Linda Dachtyl “A Late One" from A Late One (Chicken ...

Article: Interview

Terri Hinte: Co-Creating the Image of Jazz

by Victor L. Schermer
June 13, 2017

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 [This is the second of an All About Jazz series of interviews and articles on “The Many Faces of Jazz Today: Critical Dialogues" in which we explore the current state of jazz around the world with musicians, ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Unreleased Art: Volume 9 - Art Pepper & Warne Marsh At Donte's, April 26, 1974

by C. Michael Bailey
October 24, 2016

When any previously unheard Art Pepper is released, the event bears a bit of context. Laurie Pepper's Volume 9 addition to her Unreleased Art series is the 3-CD box Art Pepper & Warne Marsh at Donte's April 26, 1974. It contains music from late in Pepper's fallow period between the releases of Intensity (Contemporary, 1960) and ...

News: Festival

19th Annual Jazz On Fourth Street Festival, Berkeley, CA Lineup

March 28, 2014

Presented by Fourth Street Merchants, KCSM/Jazz 91, Avalon Berkeley, and Berkeleyside, the 19th Annual Jazz on Fourth Street Festival will take place Sunday, May 18, from Noon – 5:00pm in Berkeley, CA on Fourth Street between Hearst and Virginia and is free. For more information, visit fourthstreet.com or call the hot line at (510) 526-6294. This ...

Album

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

By Ed Reed

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.

News: Recording

Tenor Saxophonist/Composer Anton Schwartz To Release "Flash Mob" Jan. 28

November 20, 2013

With Flash Mob, his first new recording in seven years, the expressive and swinging tenor saxophonist/composer Anton Schwartz delivers a disc notable for its well-crafted tunes, riveting ensemble work, and abundance of attitude. Schwartz’s Antonjazz label will release the CD, his fifth since his 1998 debut When Music Calls and first since 2006’s Top 5 radio ...

Article: Album Review

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

by C. Michael Bailey
October 1, 2013

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 ...

News: Recording

Jazz Vocalist Ed Reed's Tribute To The King Cole Trio, "I'm A Shy Guy," Due Oct. 1

September 7, 2013

In choosing the repertoire for I’m a Shy Guy, his fourth album, the acclaimed Bay Area jazz vocalist Ed Reed reached way back to an early inspiration and musical hero: Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio. “Nobody else sounded like that,” Reed recalls, “and the musicianship was just fantastic.” Reed’s affinity with the material ...

Album

Born to Be Blue

By Ed Reed

Label: Blue Shorts Records
Released: 2011

News: Performance / Tour

Vocalist Ed Reed Announces East Coast Dates in Support of His Third Album "Born to be Blue"

December 12, 2011

San Francisco Bay Area jazz vocalist Ed Reed and his quartet will be performing three dates on the East Coast next month in support of his third CD, Born to Be Blue. He'll appear at the Jazz Standard 1/17, his third visit to the New York club in the last four years; Scullers in Boston 1/18 ...