I'm not sure how many will have heard of this guy outside Canada, but Jeff Healey, a great blues and jazz guitarist died today at the age of 41.
Canadian Press
Healey rose to stardom as the leader of the Jeff Healey Band, a rock-oriented trio that garnered a Juno award, international acclaim and platinum record sales with the 1988 album "See the Light."

But Healey's true love was jazz, the genre that dominated his last three albums with the Jazz Wizards.

Healey's guitar prowess was characterized by a unique playing-style that saw him lay the instrument across his lap.

It led him to share stages with such rock luminaries as George Harrison, Stevie Ray Vaughan and B.B. King, but Bray said jazz allowed him to exercise his other instrumental talents such as trumpet and drums.

Healey's love of jazz also led him to host radio shows on the CBC and a local Toronto station where he spun long-forgotten numbers from his personal collection of over 30,000 vinyl records.

This was very sad. In the USA he was big for the song "Angel Eyes" and then dropped off the top 40 radar.

I have a friend who met him while in the service in Germany. Said he was a very great, humble man.

This is quite a loss for the music community.

I was lucky enough to see the Jeff Healey band in 1990 and they rocked. Healey was a great musician and really played to the crowd.