Ed Manion

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Ed Manion, also often billed as Eddie Manion, is an American saxophone player from New Jersey, who since the mid-1970s has contributed to the Jersey Shore sound by being an early member of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes and The Miami Horns, and who has played with Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Graham Parker and many other major artists. Although Ed Manion is best known as a baritone Sax player, his tenor sax and especially his skills as a frontman and lead-singer are less known to the general public.

Ed Manion' first musical references go back to his school band in the age of 8 years, where he was playing piano. His skills were developed during high school when Manion changed to Saxophone and other wind instruments and later, at the Berklee College in Boston, before he became a regular member of the New Jersey Bar Band Circuit. He was soon asked to join Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes short after the band has been recording their debut album "I don't want to go home" on Epic Records 1975.

Ed Manion recorded several albums with Southside Johnny including "This Time It's For Real" and "Hearts of Stone" which have been produced by Steven van Zandt a.k.a. Miami Steve a.k.a. Little Steven and "The Jukes" produced by Barry Beckett. Manion left the Jukes in 1981 to record the album "Men Without Women" with Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul and to tour the world to promote the album.

When Little Steven decided to take a different musical direction, and to develop his political projects, Manion began writing and recording his own music which has not been published before his 2004 release "Follow Through".

In 1988 Eddie toured with Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band throughout the United States and Europe. Following the Tunnel of Love Tour, Eddie did a few European tours with Willy DeVille before then joining the Robert Cray Band with fellow Miami Horn Mark Pender in 1993. Eddie Manion and Mark Pender recorded one album with Robert Cray called "Shame + A Sin" in the early 1990s.

Manion came back to Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes full time in 1996 and recorded "Messin with the Blues" in 2001, "Going to Jukesville" in 2003 and "Into The Harbor" in 2005.

For 10 years from 1996, Ed Manion has not missed a single show with the Asbury Jukes and fills in his off time playing with the New York based band "Fab Faux" (Will Lee; Jimmy Vivino), the Bobby Bandiera Band and other projects.

Ed Manion played on The Misfits covers of "Diana" and "Runaway" on their 2003 album Project 1950.

As of 2005/2006, Ed Manion has been asked by Bruce Springsteen to join his Pete Seeger tribute project as a member of the recording and touring version of the "Seeger Sessions Band" where he plays the tenor saxophone.

When not on tour, Ed Manion lives in Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA.

Discography

Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome - The Seeger Sessions (2006) - Sax (Tenor)

Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes - Into The Harbor (2005) - Sax (Baritone)

Ed Manion - Follow Through (2004) - Lead Vocals, Sax (Tenor, Baritone)

Misfits - Project 1950 (2003) - Saxophone

Bruce Springsteen - The Rising (2002) - Sax (Baritone)

Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes - Going To Jukesville (2002) - Sax (Baritone)

Various Artists - A Very Special Christmas 5 (2002) - Sax (Baritone)

Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes - Superhits (2001) - Sax (Baritone, Tenor)

Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes - Messin With The Blues (2000) - Sax (Baritone)

Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul - Greatest Hits (1999) - Sax (Baritone)

Robert Cray - The Robert Cray Collection (1999) - Sax (Tenor)

Bruce Springsteen - Tracks (1998) - Sax (Baritone)

Culture Club - VH-1 Storytellers Greatest Moments (1998) - Sax (Tenor)

Various Artists - Where Have All the Flowers Gone - Pete Seeger Tribute (1998) - Sax (Tenor)

Various Artists - Every Woman's Blues (1998) - Sax (Baritone), Sax (Tenor)

Graham Parker - No Holding Back (1996) - Saxophone

Bon Jovi - These Days (1995) - Sax (Baritone)

Debbie Davies - Loose Tonight (1994) - Sax (Baritone, Tenor)

Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes - All I Want Is Everything (1993) - Synthesizer, Sax (Baritone, Tenor)

Robert Cray - Shame + A Sin (1993) - Sax (Baritone, Tenor), Horn Arrangements

Debbie Davies - Picture This (1993) - Sax (Baritone, Tenor)

Original Soundtrack - Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) - Sax

Graham Parker - Burning Questions (1992) - Saxophone

Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes - Better Days (1991) - Sax (Baritone)

Bruce Springsteen - Chimes of Freedom (1988) - Sax (Baritone)

Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul - Men Without Women (1982) Sax (Baritone)

Gary U.S. Bonds - Dedication (1981) - Sax (Tenor)

Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes - Reach Up & Touch the Sky: Live (1981) - Sax (Tenor, Baritone)

Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes - Love Is a Sacrifice (1980) - Sax (Baritone), Vocals

Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes - The Jukes (1979) - Sax (Baritone), Vocals

Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes - Hearts of Stone (1978) - Sax (Baritone), Vocals

Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes - This Time It's for Real (1977) - Sax (Baritone), Vocals

Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes - I Don't Want to Go Home (1976) - Sax (Baritone), Vocals

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Graham Parker (born November 18 1950 in London) is an English rock singer and songwriter.

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Southside Johnny (real name John Lyon, born December 4, 1948 in Neptune, New Jersey) is an American singer, harmonica player, and songwriter, who usually fronts his band The Asbury Jukes.
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Robert Cray (born 1 August, 1953, in Columbus, Georgia) is a blues musician, guitarist and singer.

Career

Robert Cray was among artists such as Stevie Ray Vaughan and George Thorogood, who got wider radio airplay and regular MTV video exposure during the late 1980s.
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For the model, see .


Debbie Davies (b. 1952 in Los Angeles, CA) is a blues guitarist.

She has been the featured guitarist in several female based bands including Maggie Mayall and the Cadillacs (led by John Mayall's wife) and Fingers Taylor
..... Click the link for more information.
Graham Parker (born November 18 1950 in London) is an English rock singer and songwriter.

Early career (1960s-1976)

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Graham Parker sang in small-time English bands such as the Black Rockers and Deep Cut Three while working in dead-end jobs
..... Click the link for more information.
Southside Johnny (real name John Lyon, born December 4, 1948 in Neptune, New Jersey) is an American singer, harmonica player, and songwriter, who usually fronts his band The Asbury Jukes.
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Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 24, 1949) is an influential American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He has frequently recorded and toured with the E Street Band.
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