Teddy Edwards Octet's lyrics & chords

So here you have a musical treasure, newly unearthed, by a major figure in jazz. Edwards, always his severest critic, is satisfied with what he hears on this album. "I was working a lot at the time and my playing here is pretty crisp -the notes are jumping out of my horn." 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...read more