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At 82, jazz singer Ed Reed makes the standards all his own

By Andrew Gilbert

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  January 13, 2012

The late-blooming 82-year-old jazz singer Ed Reed seems to pop up at portentous historical moments. Like the time he was busted for possession of narcotics with tenor sax titan Dexter Gordon. Or when his trustee duties at San Quentin State Prison included delivering lawbooks to “Soledad Brother’’ George Jackson in solitary. These days, however, Reed is making his own history. Celebrating the release of his third CD, “Born To Be Blue,’’ he performs Wednesday at Scullers

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