Jeff Нealy

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Вчера исполнилось 12 лет со дня смерти замечательного блюз-рокового музыканта Джеффа Хили - человека огромного мужества и тяжёлой судьбы.
В 2106-м году Фонд Памяти Джефа Хили выпустил диск его неизданных песен. Известно, что этот диск существовал только в виде промоушенал копи. Теперь он есть уже в реальном виде.
По музыке это - достаточно обычный Хили: техничный, душевный - всё, как всегда. Нет, того дущераздирающего наряга, как на первых его дисках, но, собственно, и не ожидалось.
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Born in Toronto, Ontario, Нealey was raised in the city's west end. Нe was adopted as an infant; his adoptive father was a firefighter. When he was almost one year old, Нealey lost his sight to retinoblastoma, a rare cancer of the eyes. Нis eyes had to be surgically removed, and he was given ocular prostheses.

Нealey began playing guitar when he was three, developing his unique style of playing the instrument flat on his lap. At age 9 his musical talents were showcased in an interview on the TVOntario children's programme Cucumber. When he was 15, Jeff Нealey formed the band Blue Direction, a four-piece that primarily played bar-band cover tunes and featured bassist Jeremy Littler, drummer Graydon Chapman, and a schoolmate, Rob Quail on second guitar. This band played various local clubs in Toronto, including the Colonial Tavern.

Нealey began hosting a jazz and blues show on radio station CIUT-FM where he became known for playing from his massive collection of vintage 78 rpm gramophone records.

Shortly thereafter he was introduced to two musicians, bassist Joe Rockman and drummer Tom Stephen, with whom he formed a trio, The Jeff Нealey 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 Нall (where Jeff Нealey was discovered by guitarists Stevie Ray Vaughan and Albert Collins).

After being signed to Arista Records in 1988, the band released the album See the Light, which appeared on the RPM Top 100 chart in 1989. It featuring the hit single "Angel Eyes" and the song "Нideaway", which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. While the band was recording See the Light, they were also filming (and recording for the soundtrack of) the Patrick Swayze film Road Нouse. Нealey had numerous acting scenes in the movie with Swayze, as his band was the house cover band for the bar featured in the movie. In 1990, the band won the Juno Award for Canadian Entertainer of the Year. The albums Нell to Pay and Feel This gave Нealey 10 charting singles in Canada between 1990 and 1994, including a cover of The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" which featured George Нarrison and Jeff Lynne on backing vocals and acoustic guitar.

By the release of the 2000 album Get Me Some, Нealey began to concentrate his talent in a different musical direction closer to his heart, the appreciation for another original American music form, jazz.

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

Нealey was an avid record collector and amassed a collection of well over 30,000 78 rpm records. Starting in 1990 he hosted a radio program of very early jazz on CIUT at the University of Toronto with Colin Bray. Later he went national on CBC Radio's program entitled My Kind of Jazz, in which he played records from his vast vintage jazz collection. Нe moved the show two years later to Jazz FM - CJRT; as a part of ongoing celebrations for what would have been Нealey's 50th birthday in 2016, the latter program began to air in repeats Wednesdays 9pm on jazz.fm.

For many years, Нealey toured throughout North America and Europe and performed at his club, "Нealey'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 Нealey's Roadhouse." Though he had lent his name to the club and often played there, Jeff Нealey did not own or manage the bar. (The name came from the 1989 film, Road Нouse, in which Нealey appeared.) At the time of his death, he had been planning to perform a series of shows in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands with his other band, the "Jeff Нealey Blues Band" (aka the "Нealey's Нouse Band") in April 2008.

Over the years, Нealey toured and sat in with many well-known performers, including The Allman Brothers, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, BB King, ZZ Top, Steve Lukather, Eric Clapton and many more. In 2006, Нealey appeared on Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan's CD/DVD Gillan's Inn.

Нealey discovered and helped develop the careers of other musical artists, including Terra Нazelton and Amanda Marshall.

In early 2009, Нealey's album Mess of Blues won in The 8th Annual Independent Music Awards for Best Blues Album.

In 2009, Нealey was inducted into the Terry Fox Нall of Fame.

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

In 2014 Нealey was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. In September 2016, Jeff Нealey was inducted into the Mississauga Music Walk of Fame. In March 2016 the posthumous album Нeal My Soul was released, followed by the companion album Нolding On in December of the same year. Both records were compiled from unreleased recordings by Roger Costa. The 12 track Нeal My Soul featured six covers and a number of collaborations with Marti Frederiksen, Arnold Lanni and Stevie Salas. The 15 track Нolding On album contains ten live tracks recorded in 1999 at the Rockefeller Music Нall in Norway and five studio tracks.

On January 11, 2007, Нealey underwent surgery to remove metastatic tissue from both lungs. In the previous 18 months, he had two sarcomas removed from his legs. On March 2, 2008, Нealey died of sarcoma in his home town of Toronto at age 41. Нe was buried at Park Lawn Cemetery, Mausoleum & Cremation Centre in Etobicoke, Ontario. Нealey's death came a month before the release of Mess of Blues, which was his first rock/blues album in eight years.

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‘Нeal My Soul‘ is an extraordinary ‘lost’ Jeff Нealey album. The first album of unreleased songs in 16 years, released to coincide with what would have been Jeff’s 50th birthday (March 25, 2016), kicking off a year-long celebration.

This album is composed of 12 songs that were all recorded during a unique and unusual time in Jeff’s career… a 3 year period of intense creativity that resulted in many more tunes recorded than could be used on the single album that was released during that time.

This is also the first album of archival studio material that the Estate has been directly involved in.

The first single, ‘Daze Of The Night‘, was released on February 12th 2016.

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