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Remembering Teddy Edwards

Originally published on eJazzNews · · By Len Dobbin

Len Dobbin's tribute to tenor saxophonist Teddy Edwards, whose death, he noted, had been overshadowed by that of Nina Simone.

Dobbin recalled Edwards's Blues in Teddy's Flat, recorded in California on December 4, 1947, with Jimmy Rowles, Red Callender and Roy Porter for Ross Russell's Dial label, and the October 18, 1946, session with Howard McGhee's sextet in Hollywood, among the earliest bebop recordings made on the West Coast, which included what are considered the first recorded bebop solos by a tenor saxophonist.

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