Thanks Zhihai,
I have followed the posts. This in particular is what I get following yours:
I had a bunch of complaints about not having the A2DP profile available so I bit_baked in PulseAudio This is the failure to connect status now:
I've tried to pair with a Nexus 5 and Nexus 3. Is there someway to make the Edison not the master? Are there any C examples that I can get away from the command line?