Tenor Madness

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This 1956 outing pairs the tenor great with Miles Davis's rhythm section of the time: pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones. Most significantly, the title track represents the only recorded meeting between Rollins and John Coltrane (also a Davis Quintet member at the time), a fierce cutting contest that finds the two legends pushing each other to great effect. The remainder of the session finds Rollins in a warm, relaxed mood, rolling through a typically eclectic repertoire and adding the lightly swinging original "Paul's Pal." His respect for melody and emphasis on tone shine through clearly. --Marc Greilsamer

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Average customer rating: Solid CD by far Tenor Madness! It took me 30 years...but, I finally heard A Must-Have for Tenor Lovers

Tenor Madness Sonny Rollins Quartet Manufacturer: Ojc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Saxophone Colossus The Bridge Way Out West Sonny Side Up Somethin' Else ASIN: B000000Y74 Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. Tenor Madness
2. When Your Lover Has Gone
3. Paul's Pal
4. My Reverie
5. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World

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This 1956 outing pairs the tenor great with Miles Davis's rhythm section of the time: pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones. Most significantly, the title track represents the only recorded meeting between Rollins and John Coltrane (also a Davis Quintet member at the time), a fierce cutting contest that finds the two legends pushing each other to great effect. The remainder of the session finds Rollins in a warm, relaxed mood, rolling through a typically eclectic repertoire and adding the lightly swinging original "Paul's Pal." His respect for melody and emphasis on tone shine through clearly. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

Solid CD.......2006-10-15

This CD's title track is the much-heralded encounter between John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. In 1956, Sonny was closer to a peak than Trane. This encounter between titans, though, isn't so titanic. It's a good song, there's nothing wrong with it, but not the sum of its parts. "Paul's Pal" is my favorite song on the CD, it has a bright, catchy melody. "When Your Lover Has Gone" and "My Reverie" are ruminative songs, "Beautiful Girl" ends things nicely. All in all, a good album, and recommended.

by far.......2006-10-10

by far one of my favorite albums. i love rollins' big full open tenor sound. somewhat of a listening novice when i first heard this album, which i loved from the beginning, i confessed to an old jazz head that i couldn't always tell on the title track when each horn player was blowing. he asked he if i knew what coltrane sounded like, and i started a longwinded answer which he silenced by saying don't tell him, just listen to coltrane, and i did, and i heard coltrane and i heard rollins, and i learned to distinguish players of the same instrument playing together, an act of real consciousness raising. which added to my listening pleasure.
i still go wild listening to the most beautiful girl in the world.

Tenor Madness!.......2005-03-30

This was, in my opinion, Sonny's first real important and influential album. The public was aware of his talents, when he replaced Harold Land in the Max Roach/Clifford Brown Quintet the year before, but Sonny hadn't really made a ground breaking album yet. This was it!

Tenor Madness swings in ever which way. There ain't a bad track on the whole album. A masterpiece from start to finish. Though over-shadowed by its more famous father release, Saxophone Colossus, Tenor Madness can hold its own, and it features some of the best tenor saxophone playing by Sonny, and ever in jazz.

The players were top notch too. For the first track, John Coltrane sits in. I believe Sonny thought it was his job to let the new guy blow. Sort of like old man let's young man have a shot. And back and forth solos between them in the song is almost woth the price of the cut alone.

There isn't two saxophonists who play more different. You can easily distinguish Sonny from Trane, and both of their ideas are endless and imaginative.

And joining Trane and Newk was The Red Garland Trio. Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Philly Joe Jones on drums. Also know as, the rhythm section of the Miles Davis Quintet. The three worked together on numerous projects, though Garland substituted Art Taylor for drummer Philly Joe Jones most of the time, on Red's solo projects, The Red Garland Trio quickly became Garland, Chambers, and Art Taylor, but the original drummer, Philly Joe Jones is here for the recording.

Red Garland was truely his own man. Very distinct style, with his use of block chords, and melodically swinging approach. After Sonny gives up his solo time and Garland comes in, a beautiful mileau comes over you, due to Garland's colorful and imaginative solos.

Paul Chambers' bass solos, some while using a bow, are extraudinary. Philly Joe had a way of being very melodic when he soloed. His solos are very imaginative and all fit well with the piece. He compliments whom ever is soloing very well, and makes it even more of a joy to listen to.

Though the album opens up with the classic, Tenor Madness, I agree with the other reviewer who was pleased more with the last few tunes, omit John Coltrane.

There is The Most Beautiful Girl started out in 3/4 and which features a very nice melodic drum solo by Philly Joe, and there is the dedication piece to Paul Chambers, Paul's Pal, perhaps the most melodic tune on the whole album. I love when Sonny and Philly Joe are trading solos, and Sonny just finds that special note he likes and just sticks with it, calm and subtle, and Philly Joe just picks up his brushes and solos like nothing ever happened.

This was a unique and enjoyable recording all around. I highly recommend it to anybody into jazz, for a short time or for a while. You can't go wrong with Tenor Madness.

It took me 30 years...but, I finally heard.......2003-09-08

I'll be honest; not being a sax player, and really being more of a 'moldy fig' in many ways when it came to my real preferences, I listened to Sonny Rollins a little back in my early days of jazz discovery - and did not much like nor 'get' his stuff. Perhaps I was listening to the 'wrong' stuff, I really don't know, but I re-listened and dug what I heard, as much as I dig this kind of sax playing. The title cut, contrary to most listeners, did not move me...(...), it almost sounded like Trane set him up, but the tone which I thought I remembered not liking, and the ideas as well, grabbed me right away. What hooked me were the last few cuts (the ones which one reviewer called "cruise ship music"). Hey, if you find a cruise with Red Garland, Philly Joe, and Paul Chambers...let me know, I'll book it today. I finally GET IT!

A Must-Have for Tenor Lovers.......2003-05-07

The bad news is that tenor Olympians Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane joined forces in the studio just once. The good news is that it's available on TENOR MADNESS. The title track is battle of two gladiators, exchanging solos with such strength and imagination it's mind-boggling. Coltrane begins the exchange, which is really not a battle but rather a collaboration with Rollins. Although the piece is not really a competition, Rollins is every bit Coltrane's equal during the 12+ minute romp. This recording is astounding and timeless. It literally doesn't get any better than this.

So the CD goes downhill from there, right? No way. Sonny is as relaxed as a late summer morning on the second track, "When Your Lover Has Gone." Red Garland (piano) and Paul Chambers (bass) also takes solos that are as smooth as a velvet rainbow. "Paul's Pal" is a nice groove number with some outstanding brush work by drummer Philly Joe Jones. "My Reverie" finds Sonny floating a soft, smoky vibrato over the rhythm section. The disc concludes with "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," a Richard Rodgers tune that the boys have great fun reconstructing. Great solos by all.

Very highly recommended.

Recorded in 1956
Total time: 35:24

Average customer rating: Are you kidding?

Tenor Madness Sonny Rollins Quartet Manufacturer: Prestige ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Workin' Saxophone Colossus Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins Relaxin' Walkin' ASIN: B000H0MNOO Release Date: 2006-09-12

Tracks:

1. Tenor Madness
2. When Your Lover Has Gone
3. Paul's Pal
4. My Reverie
5. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World

Customer Reviews:

Are you kidding?.......2007-06-11

Put simply if you are a jazz purist, collector, whatever and don't have this album, get it.... An all time famous studio meeting between Coltrane and Rollins on the title track. The rest is pure Sonny, during one of his "best" periods (he's had several). Buy it and wear it out.

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Tenor Madness (20 Bit Mastering) Sonny Rollins Quartet Manufacturer: Prestige ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Sonny Rollins Plus Four First Trane (20 Bit Mastering) Complete Jazz at Massey Hall The Bridge Cookin' With the Miles Davis Quintet (20 Bit Mastering) ASIN: B00005A8AF Release Date: 2001-03-13

Tracks:

1. Tenor Madness
2. When Your Lover Has Gone
3. Paul's Pal
4. My Reverie
5. Most Beautfiul Girl in the World

Album Details

Part of the 'masters of Jazz: The History Series 1949-1969'. 20 Bit Digitally Remastered.

Average customer rating: Solid CD by far Tenor Madness! It took me 30 years...but, I finally heard A Must-Have for Tenor Lovers

Tenor Madness Sonny Rollins Quartet Manufacturer: Dcc Compact Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Saxophone Colossus The Bridge Way Out West Sonny Side Up Somethin' Else ASIN: B000000185 Release Date: 1995-08-15

Tracks:

1. Tenor Madness
2. When Your Lover Has Gone
3. Paul's Pal
4. My Reverie (Reverie By Claude Debussy)
5. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World

Amazon.com

This 1956 outing pairs the tenor great with Miles Davis's rhythm section of the time: pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones. Most significantly, the title track represents the only recorded meeting between Rollins and John Coltrane (also a Davis Quintet member at the time), a fierce cutting contest that finds the two legends pushing each other to great effect. The remainder of the session finds Rollins in a warm, relaxed mood, rolling through a typically eclectic repertoire and adding the lightly swinging original "Paul's Pal." His respect for melody and emphasis on tone shine through clearly. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

Solid CD.......2006-10-15

This CD's title track is the much-heralded encounter between John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. In 1956, Sonny was closer to a peak than Trane. This encounter between titans, though, isn't so titanic. It's a good song, there's nothing wrong with it, but not the sum of its parts. "Paul's Pal" is my favorite song on the CD, it has a bright, catchy melody. "When Your Lover Has Gone" and "My Reverie" are ruminative songs, "Beautiful Girl" ends things nicely. All in all, a good album, and recommended.

by far.......2006-10-10

by far one of my favorite albums. i love rollins' big full open tenor sound. somewhat of a listening novice when i first heard this album, which i loved from the beginning, i confessed to an old jazz head that i couldn't always tell on the title track when each horn player was blowing. he asked he if i knew what coltrane sounded like, and i started a longwinded answer which he silenced by saying don't tell him, just listen to coltrane, and i did, and i heard coltrane and i heard rollins, and i learned to distinguish players of the same instrument playing together, an act of real consciousness raising. which added to my listening pleasure.
i still go wild listening to the most beautiful girl in the world.

Tenor Madness!.......2005-03-30

This was, in my opinion, Sonny's first real important and influential album. The public was aware of his talents, when he replaced Harold Land in the Max Roach/Clifford Brown Quintet the year before, but Sonny hadn't really made a ground breaking album yet. This was it!

Tenor Madness swings in ever which way. There ain't a bad track on the whole album. A masterpiece from start to finish. Though over-shadowed by its more famous father release, Saxophone Colossus, Tenor Madness can hold its own, and it features some of the best tenor saxophone playing by Sonny, and ever in jazz.

The players were top notch too. For the first track, John Coltrane sits in. I believe Sonny thought it was his job to let the new guy blow. Sort of like old man let's young man have a shot. And back and forth solos between them in the song is almost woth the price of the cut alone.

There isn't two saxophonists who play more different. You can easily distinguish Sonny from Trane, and both of their ideas are endless and imaginative.

And joining Trane and Newk was The Red Garland Trio. Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Philly Joe Jones on drums. Also know as, the rhythm section of the Miles Davis Quintet. The three worked together on numerous projects, though Garland substituted Art Taylor for drummer Philly Joe Jones most of the time, on Red's solo projects, The Red Garland Trio quickly became Garland, Chambers, and Art Taylor, but the original drummer, Philly Joe Jones is here for the recording.

Red Garland was truely his own man. Very distinct style, with his use of block chords, and melodically swinging approach. After Sonny gives up his solo time and Garland comes in, a beautiful mileau comes over you, due to Garland's colorful and imaginative solos.

Paul Chambers' bass solos, some while using a bow, are extraudinary. Philly Joe had a way of being very melodic when he soloed. His solos are very imaginative and all fit well with the piece. He compliments whom ever is soloing very well, and makes it even more of a joy to listen to.

Though the album opens up with the classic, Tenor Madness, I agree with the other reviewer who was pleased more with the last few tunes, omit John Coltrane.

There is The Most Beautiful Girl started out in 3/4 and which features a very nice melodic drum solo by Philly Joe, and there is the dedication piece to Paul Chambers, Paul's Pal, perhaps the most melodic tune on the whole album. I love when Sonny and Philly Joe are trading solos, and Sonny just finds that special note he likes and just sticks with it, calm and subtle, and Philly Joe just picks up his brushes and solos like nothing ever happened.

This was a unique and enjoyable recording all around. I highly recommend it to anybody into jazz, for a short time or for a while. You can't go wrong with Tenor Madness.

It took me 30 years...but, I finally heard.......2003-09-08

I'll be honest; not being a sax player, and really being more of a 'moldy fig' in many ways when it came to my real preferences, I listened to Sonny Rollins a little back in my early days of jazz discovery - and did not much like nor 'get' his stuff. Perhaps I was listening to the 'wrong' stuff, I really don't know, but I re-listened and dug what I heard, as much as I dig this kind of sax playing. The title cut, contrary to most listeners, did not move me...(...), it almost sounded like Trane set him up, but the tone which I thought I remembered not liking, and the ideas as well, grabbed me right away. What hooked me were the last few cuts (the ones which one reviewer called "cruise ship music"). Hey, if you find a cruise with Red Garland, Philly Joe, and Paul Chambers...let me know, I'll book it today. I finally GET IT!

A Must-Have for Tenor Lovers.......2003-05-07

The bad news is that tenor Olympians Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane joined forces in the studio just once. The good news is that it's available on TENOR MADNESS. The title track is battle of two gladiators, exchanging solos with such strength and imagination it's mind-boggling. Coltrane begins the exchange, which is really not a battle but rather a collaboration with Rollins. Although the piece is not really a competition, Rollins is every bit Coltrane's equal during the 12+ minute romp. This recording is astounding and timeless. It literally doesn't get any better than this.

So the CD goes downhill from there, right? No way. Sonny is as relaxed as a late summer morning on the second track, "When Your Lover Has Gone." Red Garland (piano) and Paul Chambers (bass) also takes solos that are as smooth as a velvet rainbow. "Paul's Pal" is a nice groove number with some outstanding brush work by drummer Philly Joe Jones. "My Reverie" finds Sonny floating a soft, smoky vibrato over the rhythm section. The disc concludes with "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," a Richard Rodgers tune that the boys have great fun reconstructing. Great solos by all.

Very highly recommended.

Recorded in 1956
Total time: 35:24

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Tenor Madness Too Ricky Ford Manufacturer: Muse Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop & Post-Bop | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Saxotic Stomp ASIN: B000000GO0 Release Date: 1995-05-23

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1. Summer Summit
2. Ballad De Jour
3. Blues Abstractions
4. Up A Step
5. Con Alma
6. Soul Eyes
7. Rollin' And Strollin'
8. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
9. Nigeria Blues

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Tenor Madness Sonny Rollins Quartet Manufacturer: Prestige ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000FIHBDQ Release Date: 2006-07-03

Tracks:

1. Tenor Madness
2. When Your Lover Has Gone
3. Paul's Pal
4. My Reverie
5. Most Beautfiul Girl in the World

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

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Tenor Madness 1956 Sonny Rollins Manufacturer: Giants of Jazz (Ita) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop & Post-Bop | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Jazz General | Jazz | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Jazz General | Jazz | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Bebop | Jazz | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Bebop | Jazz | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music ASIN: B00000AFBC Release Date: 1998-09-22

Tracks:

1. Tenor Madness
2. My Reverie
3. Most Beautiful Girl in the World
4. St. Thomas
5. Strode Rode
6. Blue 7
7. Moritat
8. I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
9. House I Live In

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Tenor Madness Spike Robinson Manufacturer: Essential ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000DTRP Release Date: 1997-08-12

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Tenor Madness Sonny Rollins Quartet Manufacturer: Jvc Japan ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0002V00Q6 Release Date: 2004-10-04

Tracks:

1. Tenor Madness
2. When Your Lover Has Gone
3. Paul's Pal
4. My Reverie
5. Most Beautfiul Girl in the World

Album Details

Limited budget release. Only available until December 2004.

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Tenor Madness ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000NO28PS Release Date: 2007-04-17

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