A.C. Reed

A.C. Reed. Self: Festival Express. Sax player A.C. Reed was born Aaron Corthen in Wendell, MO, in 1926. He moved to Chicago in 1942 and studied at the Chicago Conservatory of Music until 1944. He played with such blues artists as Willie Mabon and Earl Hooker, then in the 1950s he joined Dennis Binder's Rhythm and Blues All-Stars. In the 1960s he cut a few singles for Age Records and...