TEDDY CHARLES

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Teddy Charles (April 13, 1928 – April 16, 2012) was an influential American jazz musician and composer whose instruments were the vibraphone, piano, and drums. Born Theodore Charles Cohen in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, he studied at the Juilliard School of Music as a percussionist. Later he began to record and made personal appearances as Teddy Cohen with bands as a vibraphonist, writing, arranging and producing records, in 1951 changing his last name to Charles. Charles was one of many jazz musicians who hung out at an apartment building at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York City known as the Jazz Loft rented by photographer and artist David X. Young, who in turn sublet two apartments to Hall Overton (Charles's mentor) and Dick Cary. Known as an innovator, Charles's main work was recorded in the 1950s, creating some highly influential and sought-after futuristic, polytonal recordings such as "New Directions", "Collaboration: West", "Word read more...
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TEDDY CHARLES Teddy Charles And His Trio album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Teddy Charles And His Trio
Cool Jazz 1952
TEDDY CHARLES Teddy Charles Quartet ‎– New Directions album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Teddy Charles Quartet ‎– New Directions
Cool Jazz 1953
TEDDY CHARLES Teddy Charles, Hall Overton, Ed Shaughnessy ‎– New Directions album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Teddy Charles, Hall Overton, Ed Shaughnessy ‎– New Directions
Cool Jazz 1953
TEDDY CHARLES Teddy Charles Quartet ‎– New Directions 3 (aka New Directions) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Teddy Charles Quartet ‎– New Directions 3 (aka New Directions)
Cool Jazz 1953
TEDDY CHARLES New Directions, Vol.4 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
New Directions, Vol.4
Cool Jazz 1954
TEDDY CHARLES Teddy Charles Featuring Bob Brookmeyer - New Directions Vol. 5 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Teddy Charles Featuring Bob Brookmeyer - New Directions Vol. 5
Cool Jazz 1954
TEDDY CHARLES n.d. Quartet album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
n.d. Quartet
Cool Jazz 1955
TEDDY CHARLES The Teddy Charles Tentet album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
The Teddy Charles Tentet
Cool Jazz 1956
TEDDY CHARLES Vibe-Rant album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Vibe-Rant
Cool Jazz 1957
TEDDY CHARLES Word From Bird album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Word From Bird
Cool Jazz 1957
TEDDY CHARLES The Prestige Jazz Quartet album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Prestige Jazz Quartet
Cool Jazz 1957
TEDDY CHARLES Three for Duke album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Three for Duke
Cool Jazz 1958
TEDDY CHARLES Salute to Hamp album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Salute to Hamp
Cool Jazz 1959
TEDDY CHARLES Coolin' album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Coolin'
Hard Bop 1959
TEDDY CHARLES Russia Goes Jazz album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Russia Goes Jazz
Cool Jazz 1964
TEDDY CHARLES Adventures in California album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Adventures in California
Cool Jazz 2006
TEDDY CHARLES Dances With Bulls album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Dances With Bulls
Cool Jazz 2008

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TEDDY CHARLES On Campus, Ivy League Jazz Concert album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
On Campus, Ivy League Jazz Concert
Cool Jazz 1960
TEDDY CHARLES Metronome Presents Jazz In The Garden At The Museum Of Modern Art album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Metronome Presents Jazz In The Garden At The Museum Of Modern Art
Cool Jazz 1960
TEDDY CHARLES Live at the Verona Jazz Festival, 1988 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live at the Verona Jazz Festival, 1988
Cool Jazz 1989
TEDDY CHARLES Teddy Charles, Walter Wolff Trio ‎: Live album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Teddy Charles, Walter Wolff Trio ‎: Live
Cool Jazz 2009

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TEDDY CHARLES Collaboration: West album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Collaboration: West
Cool Jazz 1956
TEDDY CHARLES Evolution album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Evolution
Cool Jazz 1957

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