"[5] Edwards also edited the collection Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies (Columbia University Press, 2004) with Farah Griffin and Robert G. O'Meally.

In 2023, Edwards co-wrote and edited the autobiography of jazz musician Henry Threadgill, Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music.

[7] In 2012, Edwards and Cloutier, in consultation with other experts and after examining archival materials and personal correspondence, authenticated the manuscript as a previously unknown 1941 work by Claude McKay, called Amiable With Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem.

[8] Henry Louis Gates, who served as one of the experts evaluating the manuscript's authenticity, called it a "major discovery...It dramatically expands the canon of novels written by Harlem Renaissance writers.

[14] In 2024 he received a PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Award for Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music, coauthored with Henry Threadgill.