Lucy Reed

Lucy Reed was an attractive but small known jazz vocalist who performed around Chicago in the ’50s. The cool-toned Reed, who valued cool school performers like Chris Connor and June Christy, resided in different elements of the Midwest — she was created in Marshfield, WI in 1924, visited senior high school in St. Paul, MN in the past due ’30s/early ’40s and resided in Milwaukee, WI, Iron Town, MI and Duluth, MN in the ’40s before surviving in Chicago in the ’50s. When Woody Herman’s big music group performed Duluth, Reed was employed for a few of his regional gigs — from then on, she was a highlighted singer on a few of Charlie Ventura’s Midwestern displays. Located in Chicago in the ’50s, Reed was frequently followed by bassist Johnny Frigo (who was simply using the Soft Winds) and pianist Dick Marx at a membership known as the Lei Aloha. The Midwesterner didn’t perform very much documenting, although she briefly documented for Illusion. Sessions in NY in 1955 and Chicago in 1957 led to her debut LP for Illusion, THAT IS Lucy Reed. The 1957 program utilized Marx and Frigo, as the 1955 time employed the fantastic pianist, Costs Evans — regrettably, Evans didn’t single at all. Following the ’50s, Reed became a lot more obscure. In 1991, Illusion reissued Reed’s 1955 and 1957 recordings for the 16-song Compact disc, The Performing Reed.