Teddy Charles

Teddy Charles is a genuine rarity: a jazz musician who largely retired from the business enterprise. A skillful otherwise overly unique vibraphonist and (early in his profession) quite able on piano and drums, Charles was as very important to his open-minded strategy in the 1950s toward more complex noises as he was for his playing. He relocated to NY to review percussion at Juilliard in 1946, but rather became mixed up in jazz world. He previously short stints using the big rings of Randy Brooks, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Friend DeFranco, and Chubby Jackson from 1948-1951 and used combos going by Anita O’Day, Oscar Pettiford, Roy Eldridge, and Slim Gaillard. He also joined up with the Jazz Composers’ Workshop (1953-1955) alongside Charles Mingus and Teo Macero, starting his design up towards the affects of traditional music and freer improvising. Charles, who documented with Mingus, Kilometers Davis, and Wardell Grey, among numerous others, started leading his personal stimulating record times in 1951, and by 1953 he was also operating as an archive maker, a field that required a lot more of his period from 1956 on. He led his personal classes for Prestige, Atlantic, Savoy, Jubilee, Bethlehem (where he created around 40 information, mostly for additional performers), and Warwick from 1951-1960, but was barely noticed from in the 1960s, apart from a 1963 arranged for United Performers. Charles relocated towards the Caribbean, where he opened up a sailing business. After taking part in a 1980 jam program, he eventually relocated back to NY, creating a “return” record for Spirit Take note in 1988, but nonetheless staying semi-retired from music.