Teddy Charles releases first studio album in 40 years

Master vibraphonist Teddy Charles, 80, has recorded his first studio album in 40 years. “Dances with Bulls“ will be released by New York City jazz label Smalls Records on February 24, 2009. Erin Schultz interviews the legendary vibe player at his Riverhead, NY home, taking her down a terrific musical memory lane. The reporter for the Times/Review newspapers, an award-winning series of weeklies on the East End of Long Island, also hangs out for a weekly jam session with the man who played vibraphone with Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, to name a few.