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Video: Teddy Edwards, 1962
Video: Teddy Edwards, 1962
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In the tenor sax pantheon, there’s Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane. But then there are dozens of smaller giants who were solid, fluid, soulful players, including Wardell Gray, Zoot Sims, Stan Getz, Harold Land, Hank Mobley, Eddie Lockjaw” Davis, Frank Wess and Sonny Stitt. Often forgotten today is Teddy Edwards, who was born in Mississippi, moved to Detroit and wound up in Los Angeles in the 1940s and remained there for much of his …
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