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Since recording his first album at the age of 78, Reed has taken his rightful place as one of jazz’s most keenly observant singers, a master balladeer with a fine-grained baritone who turns familiar standards into wrenching tales. Over the years several dozen jazz artists have returned to the limelight after long stretches in obscurity, but Reed is that rarest of cases, a musician who’s come into his own as a creative force late in life. And with every performance he seems to make up for lost time.