Ed Reed (musician)
Ed Reed (born February 2, 1929 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American jazz singer .
Reed's mother was a singer; his father worked as a chauffeur in Cleveland, later with the Southern Pacific Railway. In the 1930s his family moved to Watts , a suburb of Los Angeles , where he met young Charles Mingus , with whom he had informal classes. His early musical role models were Johnny Hodges and Lester Young . In the mid-1940s he was on the Central Avenue music scene. After the war he was thrown out of high school and was drafted into the military at the age of 17, where he soon became addicted to heroin.
He served four drug abuse prison terms from 1951 and spent a total of a decade and a half in San Quentin and Folsom State Prison , where he also played in prison bands with Art Pepper . After his release in 1966, he worked in social work, including a. in a children's center for migrant workers in Sacramento, for the Catholic Welfare Bureau and in urban development projects in Los Angeles. At the age of 78, he made his debut album Love Stories with a program of jazz standards such as Bye Bye Blackbird or Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child . In 2008 he appeared on Marian McPartland's NPR radio show Piano Jazz . At the Jazz Awards of the Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) he was named Jazz Hero in 2011 .
Discographic notes
- Sings Love Stories (2006), with Peck Allmond, Gary Fisher, John Wiitala, Eddie Marshall
- The Song Is You (2008), with Peck Allmond , Jamie Fox, Gary Fisher
- Born To Be Blue (2011) with Randy Porter , Akira Tana
- I'm a Shy Guy (2013), with Anton Schwartz, Randy Porter , Jamie Fox, John Wiitala, Akira Tana
Web links
- Web presence
- Ed Reed at Allmusic (English)
- Portrait (2012) on National Public Radio
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Portrait at Jazzwest ( Memento from July 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Jazz Heroes of the Jazz Journalists Association 2011
- ↑ Report in the Boston Globe 2012. Archived from the original on July 7, 2012 ; accessed on April 4, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reed, Ed |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cleveland , Ohio |