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AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic album series with a re-mastered 2CD release by Teddy Edwards, complete with original artwork and liner notes. Teddy Edwards Quartet-Teddys Ready; Sunset Eyes; Teddy Edwards & Howard McGhee-Together Again and Teddy Edwards Quartet-Good Gravy. Teddy Edwards began his jazz career in the 1940s moving around constantly and playing with the likes of Ernie Fields and Howard McGhee. By 1944 he arrived in Los Angeles, switched to tenor sax and remained there for most of his career. He became one of the most respected and influential tenor saxophonists of his generation. It was not until 1959 when he formed his own Quartet that he finally came into his own. Amongst the great names he has worked with are:- Benny Carter, Max Roach, Dexter Gordon, Benny Goodman, Joe Castro and even Tom Waits in the 1990s when he joined the great man on tour, including in the U.K. and appeared on his classic Heart Attack and Vine album.
CD1 1-7: Teddys Ready 1. Blues In G 2. Scrapple From The Apple 3. Whats New? 4. You Name It 5. Take The A Train 6. The Sermon 7. Higgins Hideaway 8-14: Sunset Eyes 8. Tempo De Blues 9. Vintage 10. I Hear A Rhapsody 11. Up In Teddys New Flat 12. Sunset Eyes 13. Teddys Tune 14. Takin Off
CD2 1-7: Together Again 1. Together Again 2. You Stepped Out Of A Dream 3. Up There 4. Perhaps 5. Misty 6. Sandy 7-15: Good Gravy 7. Good Gravy 8. Could You Forget 9. A Stairway To The Stars 10. A Little Later 11. On Green Dolphin Street 12. Just Friends 13. Laura 14. Yes Ill Be Ready 15. Not So Strange
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