"I love to come into a room with great players and a listening audience and see what happens when we meet each tune as if it is brand new, with all of its possibilities lying in front of it. It seems as if even the tune itself awaits us anxiously to discover its new persona. Then we, the players, get to search it, seek it, play with it, and light it up like it has never been lit before. Then at the last note, the musicians and I grin at it like new parents and it can be so beautiful."

– Ed

Performance Schedule

Watch the videoWatch Bay Area filmmaker Richard Bock's short documentary of Ed performing at Anna's Jazz Island in Berkeley, and talking about his life and music.

  • The Cheeseboard Pizza Collective, Berkeley,
    Tuesdays 5pm - 8pm
  • Anna's Jazz Island, Berkeley, February 7
  • The Jazz School, Berkeley, February 22




"A jazz singer in the truest sense."

– Andrew Gilbert, Contra Costa Times

Tuesday Nights
5pm - 8pm
Ed appears with jazz pianist Brian Cooke and bassist Robb Fisher

East Bay Express 2008 Winner of Best Outdoors Dining to Music in the East Bay

1512 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley
www.cheeseboardcollective.coop
map

Anna's Jazz Island

Saturday, February 7 — Ed's 80th Birthday Bash!!

8pm and 10pm

Ed Reed and his Quartet
Featuring Larry Dunlap (piano), Peck Allmond (saxophone, trumpet), Robb Fisher (bass), Bud Spangler (drums)

Two shows: 8pm and 10pm
$15 cover

Anna's Jazz Island
2120 Allston Way
Berkeley

Reservations highly recommended.
510-841-5299

Parking at the Allston Way Parking Facility
2061 Allston Way
$3 with validation from Anna's

 

Anna's Jazz Island

Wednesday, January 21

9 pm

KCSM (91.1 FM)
(Bay Area's 24-hour jazz station)
(check your local NPR station for scheduled airing)

Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland
Tune in to hear Ed and the legendary Marian McPartland in conversation and music. Ed is accompanied by pianist Gary Fisher.

Listen live on the web at http://kcsm.org/jazz91/listen.php

 

Anna's Jazz Island

Sunday, February 22

Noon - 3 pm

Workshop: The Gift: Exploring and applying natural ability


See Teaching page for details

 

Performance Archives

 

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