Teddy Edwards, a tenor saxophonist who influenced bebop jazz nationwide for decades from his Los Angeles base, has died of prostate cancer. He was 78. Mr. Edwards, who died April 20, was featured in a ...

Teddy (Theodore Marcus) Edwards was a major figure on the post-war jazz scene in Los Angeles, where he settled in 1945, and adopted his familiar tenor (rather than alto) saxophone in a group led by ...