Ed Reed

A veteran singer whose promising early career path in Los Angeles, where Charles Mingus showed him the ropes, was sidelined by military service, addiction and jail time, Ed Reed continues a miraculous latter-day career that bloomed in the Bay Area during the ’90s and took flight with a debut CD recorded in 2007 at age 78. Four years later and on the heels of his third disc, Born to Be Blue, Reed returns to the Jazz Standard.