Jeff Healey RIP

[Marcus Johnson]

Great guitar player and unique musician. Big loss to Canada and the world.

[ZachDad]

I had not heard this. Got to play with Jeff in Kansas City in the late 80's, very interesting cat and nice guy! He will be missed.

[Jake deVilliers]

What a loss - he was a cool guitar player and a huge jazz fan, not to mention an object lesson in going after your dreams no matter the difficulties.

I remember hearing him say on his jazz show on CJRT in Toronto that he played rock so he could afford to pursue his passion, Dixieland Jazz.

He'll be missed.

[neal davis]

I remember one of the first jazz gigs I ever did on double bass was with Jeff on cornet and a trombone player who has also passed that was without legs in a wheel chair, we were playing dixieland tunes and there were many jokes going on back and forth between them about their perdicaments. I remember a lady came up to Jeff and was telling him about how she met him years back at a party and had a good time hanging out with him, after she left he said "I've never seen her in my entire life"

good guy

he will be missed

[Damon Rondeau]

Folks from outside Canada may not appreciate how big a scholar of old jazz Jeff Healey was. Immensely knowledgeable -- if you're a fan of the music it was tremendously enjoyable to listen to his radio show on the CBC.

It's a very sad loss to music -- he would have contributed so much more.

[Joshua]

RIP, JH...

[kevteop]

I was just thinking about Jeff Healey yesterday. Weird.

Shame.