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Jeff Healey “Jeff Healy” redirects here. For the fictional character, released the album See the Light, featuring the hit single see Jeff Healy (EastEnders). "Angel Eyes" and the song “Hideaway”, which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock InstrumenNorman Jeffrey “Jeff” Healey (March 25, 1966 – tal Performance. While the band was recording See the Light, they were also filming (and recording for the soundMarch 2, 2008) was a blind Canadian jazz and blues-rock [4] vocalist and guitarist who attained musical and personal track of) the Patrick Swayze film Road House. Healey popularity, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s. He hit had numerous acting scenes in the movie with Swayze, as Number 5 on the U.S.A. Billboard Hot 100 chart with his band was the house cover band for the bar featured "Angel Eyes" and reached the Top 10 in Canada with the in the movie. In 1990, the band won the Juno Award for songs “I Think I Love You Too Much” and “How Long Canadian Entertainer of the Year. The albums Hell to Pay and Feel This gave Healey 10 charting singles in Canada Can a Man Be Strong.” between 1990 and 1994, including a cover of The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" which featured George Harrison and Jeff Lynne on backing vocals and acoustic 1 Early life guitar.[5] Born in Toronto, Ontario, Healey was raised in the city’s west end. He was adopted as an infant;[1] his adoptive father was a firefighter. When he was almost one year 3 Later work and life old, Healey lost his sight to retinoblastoma, a rare cancer of the eyes. His eyes had to be surgically removed, and By the release of the 2000 album Get Me Some, Healey he was given ocular prostheses. began to concentrate his talent in a different musical direction closer to his heart, the appreciation for another original American music form, jazz.

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Early career and success

He went on to release three CDs of music of traditional American jazz from the 1920s and 1930s. He had been sitting in with these types of bands around Toronto since the beginning of his music career. Though known primarily as a guitarist, Healey also played trumpet during live performances. His main jazz group for touring and recording being Jeff Healey’s Jazz Wizards.

Healey began playing guitar when he was three, developing his unique style of playing the instrument flat on his lap. When he was 15,[2] Jeff Healey formed the band Blue Direction, a four-piece which primarily played bar-band cover tunes and featured bassist Jeremy Littler, drummer Graydon Chapman, and a schoolmate, Rob Quail on Healey was an avid record collector and amassed a colsecond guitar. This band played various local clubs in lection of well over 30,000 78 rpm records. He had, from Toronto, including the Colonial Tavern. time to time, hosted a CBC Radio program entitled My Healey began hosting a jazz and blues show on radio sta- Kind of Jazz, in which he played records from his vast tion CIUT-FM where he became known for playing from vintage jazz collection. He hosted a program with a simhis massive collection of vintage 78 rpm gramophone ilar name on Toronto jazz station CJRT-FM; as of 2010, records.[3] the latter program continued to air in repeats. Shortly thereafter he was introduced to two musicians, bassist Joe Rockman and drummer Tom Stephen, with whom he formed a trio, The Jeff Healey Band. This band made their first public appearance at the Birds Nest, located upstairs at Chicago’s Diner on Queen Street West in Toronto. They received a write-up in Toronto’s NOW magazine, and soon 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 guitarists Stevie Ray Vaughan and Albert Collins).

For many years, Healey toured throughout North America and Europe and performed at his club, “Healey’s” on Bathurst Street in Toronto, where he played with his blues band on Thursday nights and also with his jazz group on Saturday afternoons. The club moved to a bigger location at 56 Blue Jays Way and was rechristened “Jeff Healey’s Roadhouse.” Though he had lent his name to the club and often played there, Jeff Healey did not own or manage the bar. (The name came from the 1989 film, Road House, in which Healey appeared.)

After being signed to Arista Records in 1988, the band At the time of his death, he had been planning to per1

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form a series of shows in the United Kingdom, , and the Netherlands with his other band, the 'Jeff Healey Blues Band' (aka the 'Healey’s House Band') in April 2008.

• 2008: Mess of Blues

In early 2009, Healey’s album Mess of Blues won in The 8th Annual Independent Music Awards for Best Blues Album.[7]

• 2011: Live at Grossman’s 1994 (Eagle Rock North/Convexe)

In 2009, Healey was inducted into the Terry Fox Hall of Fame.

• 2013: As The Years Go ing By: Live in 1989-1995-2000 (in-akustik)[15]

In June 2011, Woodford Park in Toronto was renamed Jeff Healey Park in his honour.

• 2013: Live From NYC (Eagle Rock)

• 2009: Songs From The Road (Stony Plain)

• 2010: Last Call (Stony Plain Records) Over the years, Healey toured and sat in with many legendary performers, including The Allman Brothers, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, BB King, 5.4 Live albums ZZ Top, Steve Lukather, Eric Clapton and many more. In 2006, Healey appeared on Deep Purple vocalist Ian • 1993: Live in Belgium (CD & DVD) (Eagle Vision) Gillan's CD/DVD Gillan’s Inn. • 2003: Live at Healey’s (Bolder)[13] Healey discovered and helped develop the careers of other musical artists, including Terra Hazelton and • 2005: The Jeff Healey Band Live at Montreux 1999 Amanda Marshall.[6] (Eagle)

In 2014 Healey was inducted into Canada’s Walk of 5.5 Fame.

Compilations

• 1998 The Very Best of Jeff Healey (RCA)[16]

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Illness and death

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.[8] On March 2, 2008, Healey died of cancer in his home town of Toronto at age 41. He is survived by his wife Cristie and their two children.[9][10] Healey’s death came a month before the release of Mess of Blues, which was his first rock/blues album in eight years.[11]

• 1998 The Very Best of Jeff Healey (MSI Music Distribution)[17] • 1999 Master Hits (Arista) • 2004 The Platinum and Gold Collection (Arista) • 2008 Super Hits (Sony) • 2009 Legacy, Volume 1 (Arbor)[18][19] • 2013 House on Fire – Demos & Rarities (Eagle Rock North)

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Discography

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Jeff Healey Band

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Jeff Healey Solo & with The Jazz Wizards

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Jeff Healey solo

• 2002: Among Friends[12] • 2003: Live at Healey’s (Bolder)[13]

• 1995 “Let It Rock” (Quality Records) Ronnie Hawkins’ 60th Birthday Bash, Live at Massey Hall, featuring of The Hawks, The Band, Mr. Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Larry Gowan, & more. • 1997 Hits of the 80’s • 2002 While My Guitar Gently Weeps • 2004 What’s Love? (Versailles)[20]

A Tribute to Tina Turner

• 2004: Adventures in Jazzland (Healeyophonic)[12]

• 2006 Ruf Records Anthology: 12 Years of Where Blues Crosses Over (Ruf Records)[21]

• 2006: It’s Tight Like That (Stony Plain)[14]

• 2006 Saturday Night Blues: 20 Years (CBC)[22]

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Film, DVD • 1989 Road House • 1999 Live at Montreux[23] • 2004 See The Light (BMG)[24] • 2009 Legacy, Volume 1 (Arbor)[19] • 2013: As The Years Go ing By: Live in 1989-1995-2000 (in-akustik)[25]

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See also • Canadian blues • Canadian rock • Music of Canada

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References

[1] Jessey Bird (March 3, 2008). “Award-winning musician 'followed his own ion'". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 2008-03-08. [2] Assayas, Michka (ed.) (2000). Le dictionnaire du rock. Robert laffont, collection Bouquins. p. 775. [3] “Jeff Healey”. www.cbc.ca. Retrieved May 23, 2011. [4] “Road House (1989)". www.imdb.com. Retrieved May 23, 2011. [5] Arista Records LP AL-8632, 1990. [6] The Ultimate Amanda Marshall Homepage. Pages.infinit.net. Retrieved on 2011-09-28. [7] Independent Music Awards – 8th Annual Winners [8] CBC.ca: Blues guitarist Jeff Healey recovering from lung cancer surgery Accessed 2007-01-16 [9] Douglas Martin (March 4, 2008). “Jeff Healey, Guitarist and Singer, Dies at 41”. New York Times. Retrieved 2008-03-08. [10] “Blind rocker Healey dies aged 41”, BBC News, March 3, 2008, [11] Greg Quill (March 3, 2008). “Jeff Healey, 41: Canadian musician”. Toronto Star. Retrieved 2009-04-26. At the time of his death Healey was planning to release his first rock/blues album in eight years, Mess of Blues [12] Re-released 2006, Stony Plain. [13] Subtitled “The Thursday Night Recordings”. [14] Jeff Healey and The Jazz Wizards.

[15] The first release of archival material compiled with the participation and full approval of the Jeff Healey Estate. (3CD set – also available as 3CD/2DVD deluxe ed.) www.jeffhealey.com [16] CD re-release 2003 on RCA Camden. However, "(w)ith the 2004 merger of BMG (RCA Victor's parent company) and Sony (Columbia Records' parent company), the Camden label...(was) abandoned”, implying that the rereleased greatest hits package was discontinued shortly thereafter. See RCA Camden. [17] Collection issued in and imported via MSI Music Distribution, based in Florida. At the time, MSI Music Distribution was one of the largest importers of recorded music in the United States. See In Other News! Super D buys MSI Music. Entry of September 13, 2007; www.myblogutopia.com. [18] A Winnipeg-based record company, distributed by EMI in Canada, Allego Music in the United States, New Music Distribution in and Disques Dorn in . See Particulars of Arbor Records; www.arborrecords.com. [19] Contains two CDs and one DVD. One CD is a collection of Healey singles, while the other CD is a collection of unreleased live material. The DVD contains “rare footage, interviews, intimate behind the scenes moments, and unseen live performances...(including) collaborations and jams with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, Tina Turner, Keith Richards, George Harrison, B.B. King, Mark Knopfler, Jeff Lynne, Sheila E, Clarence Clemons, Paul Shaffer and Dave Edmunds.” See Legacy Product Description; idoc-pub.futbolgratis.org. [20] Healey plays on “I Can't Stand The Rain”, with Alannah Myles. [21] Healey performs “Workin' Overtime” with Walter Trout. [22] A compilation album of live performances from the Saturday Night Blues radio program on CBC Radio, hosted by Holger Petersen. Healey’s “Anything For You” (Also known as “I Would Do Anything For You”, originally recorded on the Among Friends album) is included. [23] Re-released 2005, RED Distribution. Includes Jeff Healey Band 1999 performance at the Montreux Festival, plus 1997 performances of four songs at Stravinsky Hall, also in Montreux. [24] Three video clips and live performances of 10 songs taped April 14, 1989 in London, England. Includes previously unreleased video clip “When the Night Comes Falling From the Sky.” [25] The first release of archival material compiled with the participation and full approval of the Jeff Healey Estate. (3CD/2DVD deluxe ed. – also available as 3 CD set) www.jeffhealey.com

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