Today's Live Performance was filmed and recorded on July 3, 1999 at the Montreux Festival. As a bonus there's 1997 performances of four songs at Stravinsky Hall, also in Montreux. The Jeff Healey Band has made several appearances at the Montreux Jazz Festival, including this 1999 performance, which is now available on CD for the first time. Featuring 12 songs from their explosive set, the band (Healey, Joe Rockman on bass, Pat Rush on guitar, and Tom Stephen on drums) whips the crowd into a frenzy with a blues jam for the ages. Included in [...]
Happy 35th birthday to Stony Plain.
Stony Plain's latest birthday celebration draws on a rich and extraordinarily deep catalog for a killer compilation.
Like a Hurricane was released on the 1977 Neil Young album American Stars 'N Bars . Denise Sullivan over at Crawdaddy Magazine does a good job of compiling a few facts and quotes about the origins of Like a Hurricane . The highlights: It's written about a female that Neil didn't get to sleep with and he wrote the tune while really high, in more ways than one. The Contestants: Adam Sandler : Last year to celebrate their 50th year [...]
Was it chance, irony, or fate that led to the selection of "Some of These Days" as the last song on Last Call? Music - Arts - Jeff Healey - Education - Games
Interview with Colin Bray, bass player for the Jazz Wizards and long time friend of Jeff Healey.
Interview with Colin Bray, bass player for the Jazz Wizards and long time friend of Jeff Healey.
In addition to his own amazing talent, Jeff Healey displayed remarkable ability to judge and select other talented musicians to form the Jazz Wizards.
Jeff Healey and the Jazz Wizards Concert DVD 'Beautiful Noise' To Be Released On March 23, 2010 New Studio Album 'Last Call' Due April 6, 2010 Stony Plain Records announces an April 6th release date in the U.S. and Canada for Jeff Healey 's final jazz studio album, Last Call , which showcases the beloved legendary musician performing the music that was his true passion in life: the classic jazz, swing and pop sounds of the 1920s-1940s. [...]
Featuring Rompin' Ronnie Hawkins, the late Jeff Healey, Levon Helm, Jerry Lee Lewis and who knows who else...
Following a lengthy struggle with cancer, Jeff Healey sadly passed away on Sunday 2nd March 2008, on the eve of the release of his new blues rock album, his first in over 8 years. Arguably one of the most distinctive blues-rock guitar players of our time, the new album is already regarded as a storming return to his blues-rock roots. The album was recorded late last year, with the musicians who
The Times recently published a month-by-month list of the best albums that grabbed critics' ears in 2008, and we must say that they have some incredible taste in music! We're proud to report that seven of the artists mentioned are part of The Rind family. Peter Broderick's album, Home, was hailed for its raw power [...]
UK bassist Martin Briley spent the first half of the '70s in several bands, none of them having more than fringe followings among music fans. By the latter half of the decade, he had established himself as a session player including work with noted rocker Ian Hunter as well as pursuing a solo career with his debut album in 1981. It was two years later that Briley broke through with the single The Salt In My Tears . The song, taken from his second solo album One Night With A Stranger , began to receive pockets [...]
Truth. I haven't heard or thought of Jeff Healey since his cameo in Roadhouse performing "Angel Eyes" until I saw his obituary. In the obit it said he died on the eve of his newest album's release. I will admit, in the interest of honesty, that I picked up "Mess of Blues" out of sheer morbid curiosity. One more truth: This album has blown my doors off! Man. I mean no disrespect by this at all, but what a way to go out. This album will always have the 'Jeff died on [...]
Guest post: Treadmarkz is a Human Beatles Encyclopedia and author of the weblog treadmarkz.wordpress.com Jeff Healey, the blues/rock/jazz guitarist who gained fame in the late-80's with the song "Angel Eyes" passed away Sunday from cancer. He was 41. The Canadian-born singer-guitarist had retinoblastoma, a form of ocular cancer which first developed when he was one year old, leaving him blind for life. He began playing guitar when he was three, developing an idiosyncratic style of playing, with the guitar`laying on [...]
I was saddened to learn today that Canadian blues rock and jazz musician Jeff Healey passed away yesterday after a prologued bout with cancer at the age of 41. I was oblivious to the fact that he had been fighting cancer for over a year, so this came as quite a shock. A candid, yet positive note to fans last September regarding his treatments can be read here . Blind due to a rare form of cancer since he was a baby, he learned guitar at age 3 and developed a distinct style of playing with [...]
Mike (mikiesoft) : I've seen Paul McCartney play "Something" on a ukelele as a tribute to George Harrison , and I've seen Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" done in various live settings, but I've never seen or heard this song played on a ukelele before! David (CyberCoder) : And have you ever seen a ukelele played like this before ? Holy smoke Batman, that sounds fantastic. Makes me want to play the ukelele. Of course, a wee bit slower I am sure. The funny thing is that the young man who [...]
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