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A jazz vibraphonist, pianist and composer, born Theodore Charles Cohen, who trained as a percussionist at Juilliard before becoming a leading figure in 1950s cool jazz and polytonal composition, recording as a bandleader on albums like The Teddy Charles Tentet and working as a studio musician alongside Miles Davis and Charles Mingus. He later moved into record production and, in his later years, captained historic sailing vessels including the 1906 schooner Mary E.