Teddy Charles

Virtuoso vibraphonist, composer and skipper in the CaribbeanTeddy Charles, who has died aged 84, was a virtuoso vibraphonist and a boldly experimental composer. In the 1960s, he temporarily gave up jazz to live on Martinique, where he became one of the most respected American charter-boat skippers working the Caribbean. Charles observed that there was plenty in common between the uncompromising demands of seafaring and the spontaneous challenges of jazz. In his later years he returned to music, ...

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