Tenor Madness

Sonny Rollins · 1956 · only recorded meeting of Rollins and Coltrane

Context

Recorded on May 24, 1956 at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Hackensack for Prestige, with the rhythm section of Miles Davis's quintet (Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones), this twelve-minute blues brings together Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane. It is the only existing recording of the two tenors playing together.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Hard bop: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Saxophone Colossus (St. Thomas) (1956)
• Way Out West (1957)
• Freedom Suite (1958)
• St. Thomas (Stockholm, 1959) (1959)
• The Bridge (1962)

Sources

• EN: Tenor Madness

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