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Teddy Edwards was together with Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray, the top young tenor of the late '40s. Teddy Edwards’s recordings for the Dial label not only were among one of the greatest tenor side in modern jazz, they were definitely among the first. Teddy Edwards chose to remain in Los Angeles instead of moving to NYC when it mattered. He has been grossly underrated through the years. He remained in prime form well into his 70s.
THEODORE MARCUS “TEDDY” EDWARDS was born on April 26, 1924 in Jackson, Mississippi to a musical family. His grandfather, Henry C. Reed, played the bass and his father, Bruce Edwards, trombone, violin and reed instruments. Under these circumstances it was quite obvious that Teddy started to play very young, at first alto saxophone and later clarinet.
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