This dramatic and revealing video biography and music performance traces the jazz singer Ed Reed and his 40 year struggle with drug and alcohol addiction, multiple incarcerations and attempts at getting clean and sober, culminating in his recovery in 1986. As a jazz singer most of his life, he has worked with and associated himself with some of the giants of jazz, some of whom he met in prison. At the age of 78, Ed Reed made his recording debut in 2007 with 'Ed Reed Sings Love Stories', which was followed in 2008 with ' The Song is You.' In 2008 and 2009, he was voted a 'Rising Male Singer in the annual Downbeat Critics Poll. His music has been widely acclaimed nationally by jazz critics and reviewers including the legendary Nat Hentoff. Ed Reed tells a unflinchingly candid and compelling story of his life, his music, and his recovery that has many lessons for us all.
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