Peck Allmond, trumpet, tenor sax, flutes, cornet, clarinets, trombonium, kalimbas
Gary Fisher, piano
John Wiitala, bass
Eddie Marshall, drums, recorder

“Hearing him on Victor Young’s ‘Ghost of a Chance,’ the Ellington-Strayhorn ‘Daydream,’ and Gordon Jenkins's ‘Goodbye’ underscored how much I have missed, for years, the enveloping sensuous balladry of Duke Ellington's Herb Jeffries and the conversational intimacy of Johnny Hartman in his sessions with John Coltrane ... Reed is heard in a continuing, luminous autobiography in Love Stories — one of dreams destroyed, regained, abandoned and surprisingly fulfilled. He uses space like an inner musical instrument ... If you never give up, it's a strangely, sometimes revivingly, unpredictable world. Like jazz itself — and Ed Reed." —Nat Hentoff, Wall Street Journal, 6/16/09

“A jazz singer in the truest sense, Reed absorbed the influences of Nat King Cole and Bill Henderson while honing an idiosyncratic style all his own ... the CD is a gorgeous calling card.” —Andrew Gilbert, California Report (KQED/NPR), 6/22/07

“Time has only enriched Reed's voice, a hypnotic baritone ... 11 exquisite tracks ... What Reed does with the likes of ‘If the Moon Turns Green’ that even Billie Holiday would surely bow to ... is transporting.” —Christopher Louden, JazzTimes, August 2007