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Video: Teddy Edwards Sextet (1962)

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Marc Myers
Dec 05, 2025
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Teddy Edwards was a superb West Coast jazz tenor saxophonist. He’s probably best known for recording The Duel with Dexter Gordon in 1947; being the first tenor saxophonist in a quintet co-led by Clifford Brown and Max Roach, live at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, Ca., on July 13, 1954; and for composing and recording Sunset Eyes, which beca…

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