Jazz saxophonist Teddy Edwards moved to Detroit in 1940 where he played alto saxophone with the Stack Walton band alongside the proto-boppers Howard McGhee, Wardell Gray and Al McKibbon. In 1944, Edwards took his blues inflected style to California where he switched to tenor saxophone and teamed up again with McGhee, recording the influential side "Up In Dodo’s Room." In December 1947, Edwards recorded a session with Dexter Gordon, the pair performing a duet on the bop classic "The Duel." Health problems restricted his appearances during the '50s, but in 1960 he re-emerged, leading a quartet for the popular album TEDDY'S READY. He would reunite with McGhee once again the following on the acclaimed set TOGETHER AGAIN.