The death of Jeff Healey on Sunday left Canada without one of its strongest champions of blues and jazz, said musicians who paid tribute to the late guitarist Monday.
Healey helped popularize “the kind of music that’s always kind of been under the wire,” said Colin James, a fellow traveller in the blues/jazz circuit. “It’s always good when there’s someone leading the charge.”
Healey died of cancer in Toronto at 41, leaving behind his wife, Cristie, and their two children, aged 13 and three.

I’ve always liked his stuff, and just bought his 1999 Live at Montreax.