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4 unusual facts about Teddy Edwards


Joanne Brackeen

Her career began in the late 1950s while working with names like Dexter Gordon, Teddy Edwards, Harold Land, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Charles Lloyd, but in 1969 it began to "take off" as she became the first woman in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.

MetroJazz Records

1011Rollins, Sonny/Teddy Edwards

Organ Grinder's Swing

Vibraphonist Milt Jackson recorded it again in 1976 live at the Kosei Nenkin, Tokyo, with Teddy Edwards, Cedar Walton, Ray Brown and Billy Higgins.

Teddy Edwards

Due to illness in the family, he went back to Jackson and ventured to Alexandria, Louisiana.


Howard Rumsey

The first Lighthouse All-Stars was a group made up of Los Angeles musicians who had been a part of the Central Avenue scene in the 1940s, including Teddy Edwards, Sonny Criss, Hampton Hawes, Frank Patchen, Bobby White and Keith Williams.


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