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Legend of Teddy Edwards rating 
3/5 Legend of Teddy Edwards

   
Director Don McGlynn
Certificate NC
Running time 85 minutes
Country USA,
Year 2000
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Reviewed by Rebort

Sax player Teddy Edwards had all the makings of a jazz great - yet has been largely neglected. Why?

Don McGlynn's appreciative portrait of this neglected jazzman goes some way to explaining this - much of it is a case of being in the wrong place (Los Angeles) when the jazz scene was kicking off back East. The doc uses a conventional, television-friendly format talking head interviews with jazz journos, friends and fellow musicians and a series of sets with Edwards current band in LA.

The man himself, a survivor of childhood racism, poverty, drug addiction, a broken marriage, is a dapper fellow with a great sense of humour and tales aplenty. A pity there isn't more archive footage and insight into those years.

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