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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 ...

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Ed Reed: Born to Be Blue

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

by C. Michael Bailey
June 14, 2011

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 ...

News: Recording

Vocalist Ed Reed to Release His Third Album, "Born to be Blue," June 21

May 25, 2011

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 ...

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Lin McPhillips: My Shining Hour

Read "My Shining Hour" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
March 6, 2010

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 ...

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Hadley Caliman: Straight Ahead

Read "Straight Ahead" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 21, 2010

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. ...

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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.

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Ed Reed: The Song Is You

Read "The Song Is You" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
July 13, 2008

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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News: Recording

Vocalist Ed Reed to Release "The Song is You" on His Blue Shorts Label, May 20

May 8, 2008

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, ...

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Ed Reed: Love Stories

Read "Love Stories" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
February 22, 2008

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 ...