JEFF HEALEYTHE BEST OF THE STONY PLAIN YEARS

VINTAGE JAZZ, SWING AND BLUES

SPCD 1380 + P 2015 Stony Plain Recording Co. Ltd. All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws. PO Box 861, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T5J 2L8email: info@ stonyplainrecords.com phone: (780) 468-6423 www.stonyplainrecords.com

01 Three Little Words 4:2402 The Wild Cat 2:3503 Star Dust 4:5204 Sheik of Araby 5:1105 Guitar Duet Stomp 3:3706 Sing You Sinners 5:0507 I Would Do Anything For You 4:2808 Pardon My Southern Accent 3:4609 Some Of These Days 2:4710 My Honeys Lovin Arms 5:0211 Hong Kong Blues 3:1312 Sweet Georgia Brown 8:32(promo only release with Chris Barber)

Stony Plain Records has been releasing outstanding roots and blues music since 1976.

This series dips into the vaults and helps celebrate

some of the labels most acclaimed artists.

Stony Plain was honoured to release Jeff Healeys four

vintage jazz/swing projects, plus a DVD with his beloved

Jazz Wizards. This music was his first love allowing him to

play guitar and trumpet in addition to having a career

as one of the worlds most ac-claimed and innovative electric

blues and rock musicians.

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01 Three Little WordsBert Kalmar & Harry Ruby, Warner Bros Inc & Larry Spier Music LLC

02 The Wild CatEddie Lang & Joe Venutil, EMI Robbins Catalog Inc

03 Star DustHoagy Carmichael & Mitchell Parish, Mills Music Inc

04 The Sheik of ArabyTed Snyder, Harry Bache Smith & Francis Wheeler, Songwriters Guild of America obo Ted Snyder Music Pub Co, Harry B. Smith Copyrights & EMI Mills Music Inc

05 Guitar Duet StompDavid Jones & L. Collins, Peer International Corp

06 Sing You SinnersFranke W. Harling & Sam Coslow, Sony/ATV Harmony

07 I Would Do Anything For YouAlexander Hill, Bob Williams & Claude Hopkins, George Simon Inc

08 Pardon My Southern AccentJ. Mercer & M. Malneck, Bourne Co & WB Music Corp

09 Some Of These DaysShelton L. Brooks, Will Rossiter Publishing

10 My Honeys Lovin ArmsJoseph Meyer & Herman Ruby, Larry Spier Music LLC & Redwood Music Ltd

11 Hong Kong BluesHoagy Carmichael, Songs Of Peer Ltd

12 Sweet Georgia BrownMaceo Pinkard, Ben Bernie & Kenneth Casey, Redwood Music Ltd & WB Music Corp

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Jeff Healey (1966-2008) was a musicologist and serious record collector who eventually amassed 30,000 78s from the classic period of the twenties and thirties. He started playing guitar at age three and invented his own lap style of playing. By the age of 14, Jeff was already a highly respected jazz broad-caster on CBC Radio, and later JAZZ.FM91 in Toronto. He became one of Cana-das most acclaimed guitarists, singers and bandleaders with The Jeff Healey Band and sold millions of records worldwide. By the late 90s Jeff tired of the constant travel and the life of being a rock star. He disbanded the JHB short-ly after opening a club in Toronto called Healeys and with the help of Colin Bray, formed Jeff Healeys Jazz Wizards to play the music he loved on Saturday afternoons, in addition to regularly playing with his new blues rock band. We started to work together in 2005 at a time when Jeff only wanted to record classic jazz. We promptly recorded the live album Its Tight Like That with legend-ary British trombonist and band leader Chris Barber. We followed that up with reissues of his two previous jazz albums, plus a live DVD. Jeff eventually did go back to record two electric blues based albums for Stony Plain including Mess Of Blues which won the Blues Foundations Rock Blues Album Of The Year in 2009. Jeffs final studio album Last Call was released posthumously in 2010. It was a stripped-down solo, duo and trio recording that could be called The Real Jeff Healey. It shows his love for all musical styles and features some of his best guitar and trumpet playing with heartfelt singing. His duet with violinist Drew Jurecka on The Wild Cat is a highlight.

Seeing Jeff on stage with his friends, the amazing players in the Jazz Wizards, was a joyous experience filled with camaraderie and endless jokes. It was an honour working with Jeff and getting to know his fellow musicians and family.

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Jeff Healey The Best of the Stony Plain YearsSPCD 1380

This compilation compiled by Cristie Healey, Roger Costa and Holger Petersen.

Original Recordings engineered by Alec Fraser from Liquid Sound with Tom Jardine on SPCD 1314.Edited and mixed by Nick Holmes and Jeff Healey (SPCD 1313), Alec Fraser (SPCD 1335), Halla Music

(SPCD 1312).Original mastering by Andy Krehm, Silverbirch Pro-ductions.

Re-mastered by Miles Wilkinson.

Art and Design by Michael Dangelmaier,Karo Group, Calgary, AB.

Cover Photo by Mitch Ostapchuk.

Special thanks to Cristie Healey, Roger Costa, Bud & Rose Healey, Colin Bray and all the members of Jeff Healeys Jazz Wizards, Alec Fraser, Andy Krehm and all the musicians, engineers and studios involved, Richard Flohil, Mark Pucci, Michael Dangelmaier, Mako Funasa-ka, Daniel Berman, Alvin Jahns, Peter Chapman, Marci Friesen, Amber Ramsay and Miles Wilkinson.

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Tracks 1, 10From Adventures In Jazzland(2004, Re-released 2006) SPCD 1313

Jeff Healey solo guitar & vocalsJesse Barksdale rhythm guitarTom Pletcher cornetDan Levinson clarinetReide Kaiser pianoColin Bray bass

Tracks 2, 5, 9, 11From Last Call(2010) SPCD 1335

Jeff Healey vocals, guitars and trumpetDrew Jurecka violinRoss Wooldridge piano, clarinet

Tracks 3, 7, 8From Among Friends(2002, Re-released 2006) SPCD 1312

Jeff Healey trumpet, vocals, electric guitar track 7Colin Bray string bassRoberto Rosenman guitar solo track 3

Tomaz Jardim and Inder Marwah rhythm guitar track 3Christopher Plock tenor sax track 3, soprano sax track 7Gary Scriven drums tracks 7 & 8Jesse Barksdale acoustic guitar track 7, guitar track 8Reide Kaiser piano tracks 7 & 8Danny Douglas trombone track 8Ross Wooldridge clarinet track 8Nick Pitt executive producer

Tracks 4, 6From Its Tight Like That(2006) SPCD 1314Recorded live at the Montreal Jazz Festival, July 2006 (track 4) and at Hughs Room, Toronto, August 2005 (track 6)

Jeff Healey trumpet, vocals, guitarChris Barber tromboneDrew Jurecka violinJesse Barksdale guitarColin Bray bassGary Scriven drums, washboard track 4Reide Kaiser piano track 4

Ross Wooldridge clarinet track 4 Christopher Plock soprano and alto sax track 6, clarinet track 6Brian Graville piano track 6Anne Keillor live sound track 6

Track 12From 30 Years of Stony Plain sampler(2006) SPCD 1317A promo only release recorded live at Hughs Room, Toronto, August 2005

Jeff Healey trumpet, vocals, guitarChris Barber tromboneDrew Jurecka violinChristoper Plock saxophone Jesse Barksdale guitarColin Bray bassBrian Graville pianoGary Scriven drums

Also available on DVDBeautiful Noise (2010) SPDVD 1348

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