Barbara Reed

Based in Los Angeles since the mid-'70s, Barbara Reed is an expressive and soulful jazz singer/pianist who also writes fiction. Reed, whose vocal style has been affected by Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, and Nancy Wilson (among others), has never considered herself a jazz snob. Although she is a jazz artist first and foremost, she also has a healthy appreciation of rock and R&B and has stated that her taste in music ranges from Carmen McRae to Steve Winwood, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Wonder, and the Doobie Brothers. Reed, in fact, is quite capable of giving rock or R&B songs a jaz...