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Ed Reed: Born to Be Blue
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 ...
Vocalist Ed Reed to Release His Third Album, "Born to be Blue," June 21
Ed Reed has pursued a most unconventional path to his present-day career as a highly regarded jazz singer. It was only four years ago that he released his recording debut, Ed Reed Sings Love Stories, when he was 78. The following year came The Song Is You, along with expanded touring opportunities, a guest spot on ...
Lin McPhillips: My Shining Hour
by C. Michael Bailey
San Francisco jazz singer Lin McPhillips throws elbows and says, “I'm here now" on My Shining Hour, her self-produced recording debut. McPhillips returns to performing after a nearly 20-year hiatus, following in the creative footsteps of other notable West Coast jazz musicians (Art Pepper, Frank Morgan, Ed Reed, and Hadley Caliman), without the attendant harrowing reasons ...
Hadley Caliman: Straight Ahead
by C. Michael Bailey
The most appealing thing about Hadley Caliman, save for his very eloquent name, is his equally eloquent and understated tenor saxophone playing. Firmly in a post-Coltrane context, Caliman plays a virile and muscular tenor saxophone whose tone compels because of its carefully crafted rough edges. Straight Ahead follows up his 2008 Origin release Gratitude. ...
The Song Is You
By Ed Reed
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.
Ed Reed: The Song Is You
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 ...
Vocalist Ed Reed to Release "The Song is You" on His Blue Shorts Label, May 20
One year ago, against all odds, singer Ed Reed made his recording debut at the age of 78. The CD, “Ed Reed Sings Love Stories," released on his own Blue Shorts label, was called “transporting" (Jazz Times) and “ravishing... the performance of a lifetime" (Stereophile); it “evokes feelings only attainable by someone who has really lived, ...
Ed Reed: Love Stories
by Michael P. Gladstone
On the occasion of his first album, singer Ed Reed has quite a story to tell. Originally from Cleveland, but raised in Watts, Reed went to high school with Little Esther Phillips and Bobby Nunn of The Robins ("Smokey Joe's Cafe"). The group shortly became known as The Coasters. The fellow who watched his sister's kids ...
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