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Jeff Healey- AMONG FRIENDS- CD- 2002/2006-
- Jeff Healey/Stony Plain Recording Co. Ltd.- 772532131223- 400 grn
Jeff Healey broke out on the pop charts back in 1988, barely out of his teens, with the Top 5 “Angel Eyes” (John Hiatt’s, not Matt Dennis’) to become Canada’s leading blues-rocker. But the blind guitarist-singer had grown up listening to, and collecting, early jazz records from the 1920s and 1930; even DJ-hosted a show of traditional jazz on a Toronto radio station. After touring with the Jeff Healey Band for over a decade, he left the road and opened his own club in Toronto, dividing his time between his blues band and his Jazz Wizards, a trad-jazz band. Members of that band and other specialists in early jazz from America and Britain joined him on his first album of trad-jazz, 2002’s AMONG FRIENDS. Healey is a triple threat on these album, playing guitar (acoustic and electric) and brass (trumpet and valve trombone) and singing, and clearly having a good time doing it all. Healey’s love for the music here is palpable, and he instills his affection in the musicians who join him so that nothing here sounds stale, rote or trite. You won’t find trad-jazz clichés or tired old routines here either. Instrumentation varies wildly from track to track, with only a few of the 16 tracks featuring the “standard” trad front line of trumpet, clarinet and trombone. And a couple of those feature rhythm guitar and no drums. A number of tracks feature multiple acoustic guitars, sometimes with a horn or two.
PERSONNEL: Jeff Healey (vocals, guitar, electric guitar, trumpet); Jesse Barksdale (guitar, acoustic guitar); Roberto Rosenman (guitar); Tomaz Jardim (acoustic guitar); Ross Woolridge (clarinet, piano); Chris Plock (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); John R.T. Davies (alto saxophone); Dick Sudhalter (trumpet, flugelhorn); Jim Shepherd (trombone); Reide Kaiser (piano).
With 2002's AMONG FRIENDS, Jeff Healey brought his passion for traditional jazz -- the driving dance band blues-based jazz of the 1920s and early '30s -- into the studio. The album was issued in Canada only and was followed by Adventures In Jazzland in 2004 and the live It's Tight Like That with Chris Barber in 2006. Healey, known widely for his burning, lap style brand of electric blues does play electric guitar here, but he plays far differently than on any of his previous recordings. He also plays his second instrument of choice, the trumpet. And while he may not win any Down Beat polls, it hardly matters to him. His passion for this music is lifelong, and one can hear in his delivery as a singer the influences of everyone from Louis Armstrong to Jack Teagarden, though he is way more raggedy and doesn't have his phrasing down at all. But again, that's just fine for what this is. AMONG FRIENDS also features trumpeter Dick Sudhalter, trombonists Danny Douglas and Jim Shepherd, saxophonist Chris Plock on both soprano and tenor, and John R.T. Davies on alto, Reide Kaiser on piano, and upright bassist Colin Bray. There are differing ensembles here depending on the material, which ranges from the wild and woolly "Bright Eyes," to Frank Loesser's "I Wish I Were Twins," to Gus Kahn and Isham Jones' "I'll See You In My Dreams," to "Limehouse Blues," to Earl Hines' "Blues In Thirds." Healey's not looking for anything but the feel of the music he loves. It's raw, raucous, fun and there's plenty of soul in his delivery as a vocalist. The jazz snobs would decry this, but Healey's not aiming to please; he's enjoying himself and that's obvious here. That said, his intention is made plain to the listener, and one cannot help but feel the infectious joy that comes from these grooves.
Comes In A Standard Jewel Case With Clear Tray Includes Six-Page Foldout Inlay.
Made In Canada.
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