Ed Reed

Jazz vocalist and lifestyle survivor Ed Reed spent his youth developing up in W, CA in the 1930s and ’40s where he found a few performing tips from jazz great Charles Mingus who all occasionally minded his sister’s kids inside your home next door from where Reed lived. Reed still left senior high school without graduating and enlisted in the U.S. Military. While portion, he created a significant heroin addiction, which resulted in four stints in San Quentin and Folsom prisons (during one incarceration he sang within a jazz combo that included fellow inmate Artwork Pepper). You should definitely serving period, Reed sang wherever he could, carrying out the neighborhood circuit of open up mics. Finally in 1985, after some forty many years of critical drug cravings, he entered an application that helped him kick his medication dependency. Hoping to greatly help others, he created an individual lecture series known as The Artwork of Living Well. In Feb 2006 he documented his debut recording, Love Stories, away Information in Berkeley, CA and released it by himself Blue Shorts Information.