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Jazz vocalist Lucy Reed is joined by pianist Bill Evans, guitarist Howard Collins, and Bassist Johnny Frigo. Lucy Reed was an appealing but little known jazz vocalist who performed around Chicago in the '50s. The cool-toned Reed, who appreciated cool school singers like Chris Connor and June Christy, lived in different parts of the Midwest she was born in Marshfield, WI in 1924, went to high school in St. Paul, MN in the late '30s/early '40s and lived in Milwaukee, WI, Iron City, MI and Duluth, MN in the '40s before living in Chicago in the '50s. When Woody Herman's big band played Duluth, Reed was hired for some of his local gigs after that, she was a featured singer on some of Charlie Ventura's Midwestern shows. Based in Chicago in the '50s, Reed was regularly accompanied by bassist Johnny Frigo (who had been with the Soft Winds) and pianist Dick Marx at a club called the Lei Aloha. The Midwesterner didn't do very much recording, although she briefly recorded for Fantasy. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 Inchworm
2 My Love Is a Wanderer
3 Because We're Kids
4 It's All Right With Me
5 There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York
6 Lazy Afternoon
7 Flying Down to Rio
8 Little Girl Blue
9 Fools Fall in Love
10 Out of This World
11 You May Not Love Me
12 My Time of Day
13 No Moon at All
14 Tabby the Cat
15 Baltimore Oriole
16 That's How I Love the Blues