The Jeff Healey Band - The Very Best Of JHB (1998-2003)

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The Jeff Healey Band - The Very Best Of JHB
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Blues; Blues-Rock

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Jeff Healey (born Norman Jeffrey Healey, March 25, 1966 – March 2, 2008) was a blind
Canadian jazz and blues-rock guitarist andvocalist.Born in Toronto, Ontario, Healey was raised in the city's west end. He was adopted as an
infant; his adoptive father was a firefighter. Healey lost his sight when he was eight months old to retinoblastoma, a rare
cancer of the eyes. His eyes had to be surgically removed, and he was given artificial replacements. After living cancer-free for
38 years, he subsequently developed sarcoma in his legs; despite surgery for this, the sarcoma spread to his lungs and
ultimately was the cause of his death. He began playing guitar when he was three, developing his unique style of playing the
instrument flat on his lap.When he was 17 he formed the band Blue Direction, a four-piece band which primarily played
bar-band cover tunes. Among the other musicians were bassist Jeremy Littler, drummer Graydon Chapman, and a schoolmate,
Rob Quail on second guitar. This band played various local clubs in Toronto, including the Colonial Tavern.Shortly thereafter he was introduced to two musicians, bassist Joe Rockman and drummer
Tom Stephen, with whom he formed a trio and made their first public appearance at The Birds Nest, located upstairs at Chicago's
Diner on Queen Street West in Toronto. The new band received a write-up in Toronto's NOW magazine, and quickly were
playing almost nightly in local clubs such as Grossman's Tavern and the famed blues club Albert's Hall (where Jeff Healey was
discovered by guitar virtuosos Stevie Ray Vaughan and Albert Collins).After being signed to Arista Records in 1988, the band released the album See The Light,
featuring the hit single "Angel Eyes" and the song "Hideaway", which was nominated for a "Best Instrumental" Grammy
Award. While the band was recording See The Light, they were also filming (and recording for the soundtrack of) the Patrick Swayze
film Road House (1989 film).

In 1990 the band won the "Entertainer of the Year" Juno Award. Other hits have included "How
Long Can a Man Be Strong" and a cover of The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (which also featured George Harrison
and Jeff Lynne on backing vocals and acoustic guitar).By the release of the 2000 album, "Get Me Some", Healey had grown weary of the world of
rock music, and began to concentrate his considerable talents in a direction closer to his heart, hot jazz.He went on to release three CDs of music from this true passion, traditional American jazz
from the 1920s and 1930s. He was an avid record collector and amassed a collection of well over 30,000 78 rpm records and he
had been sitting in with traditional jazz bands around Toronto since the beginning of his music career. Though known
primarily as a guitarist, Healey also played trumpet during live performances.Healey had, from time to time, hosted a CBC Radio program entitled My Kind of Jazz, in which
he played records from his vast vintage jazz collection. He hosted a program with a similar name on Toronto jazz station
CJRT-FM, also known as JAZZ.FM91.He had also been touring with his other group, 'The Jazz Wizards', playing the afore
mentioned American 'hot' jazz. At the time of his death, they had been planning to perform a series of shows in Britain, Germany
and Holland in April 2008.For many years Healey performed at his club, Healey's on Bathurst Street in Toronto, where
he played with a rock band on Thursday nights, and with his jazz group, on Saturday afternoons. The club moved to a bigger
location at 56 Blue Jays Way and it was rechristened Jeff Healey's Roadhouse. (Though he had lent his name and often played
there, Jeff Healey did not own or manage the bar.)Over the years he toured and sat-in with many legendary performers, including, Stevie Ray
Vaughan, Buddy Guy, BB King, ZZ Top, Steve Lukather, Eric Clapton and many, many more. In 2006, Healey appeared on Deep
Purple vocalist Ian Gillan's CD/DVD Gillan's Inn.Healey discovered and helped develop the careers of other artists, including Amanda
Marshall and Terra Hazelton.On January 11, 2007, Healey underwent surgery to remove metastatic tissue from both
lungs. In the previous eighteen months he had two sarcomas removed from his legs.Healey is survived by his wife and two children.

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BMG Entertainment International UK & Ireland Ltd, 74321 603382
©1998 the Camden Record Label, a division of BMG Entertainment International UK & Ireland Ltd.
1998
2003
Jeff Healey — Vocals, Electric & Acoustic Guitars
Joe Rockman — Bass, Backing Vocals
Tom Stephen — Drums

Tracks:
1. The Jeff Healey Band - It Could All Get Blown Away (4:44)
2. The Jeff Healey Band - Communication Breakdown (3:15)
3. The Jeff Healey Band - Yer Blues (4:31)
4. The Jeff Healey Band - Stop Breakin' Down (4:21)
5. The Jeff Healey Band - Run Through The Jungle (4:24)
6. The Jeff Healey Band - Cruel Little Number (4:35)
7. The Jeff Healey Band - Shapes Of Things (4:37)
8. The Jeff Healey Band - Badge (3:57)
9. The Jeff Healey Band - Confidence Man (3:13)
10. The Jeff Healey Band - Angel (4:30)
11. The Jeff Healey Band - House That Love Built (4:51)
12. The Jeff Healey Band - River Of No Return (3:33)
13. The Jeff Healey Band - See The Light (4:26)
14. The Jeff Healey Band - Don't Let Your Chance Go By (3:21)
15. The Jeff Healey Band - Nice Problem To Have (4:52)
16. The Jeff Healey Band - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (5:15)

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