the selection "Tenor Madness" represents the purity of improvisation, jazz and the blues. John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins both interned with Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, drinking deep from both ...

In the mid-1950s, through the sheer gale force of his surging theme-and-variation solos, Sonny Rollins turned the ... “Doxy,” “Airegin,” “Tenor Madness” and the calypso anthem ...

Sonny Rollins used to rent an apartment in New ... including "Saxophone Colossus," "Tenor Madness" (with Coltrane), "Way Out West" and a series of "A Night at the Village Vanguard" discs that ...

Mr. SONNY ROLLINS (Musician): OK ... The two men bonded. (Soundbite of "Tenor Madness") HURST: This is the only example of a Coltrane-Rollins recording. It's a hard-driving tune called "Tenor ...

Sonny Rollins is, as the title of his 1957 album ... just as he was at a peak. As his 1956 album “Tenor Madness” had shown, only John Coltrane could challenge him in the Hard Bop heavyweight ...

"Sonny, Please" — the title takes its name ... in an energetic duel on the title track of the 1956 album "Tenor Madness." Rollins pauses, twirls some strands of his silvery beard in his long ...

By David Marchese Sonny Rollins is, by any reasonable estimation ... I’m also thinking about when you played with John Coltrane on “Tenor Madness.” There’s a part of that performance ...

Tenor Madness is an album by jazz musician Sonny Rollins released in October 1956 by Prestige Records. It is most notable for its title track, the only known recording featuring both Rollins and ...

On Dec. 17, 1951, Sonny Rollins entered a studio for his first session as bandleader. The tenor saxophonist, then 21 years old, had already recorded with the likes of Miles Davis. Within days ...

He wasn't scheduled to play, but John Coltrane had his axe in hand when he came to watch Miles Davis' rhythm section record with Sonny Rollins. Trane not only played on the date, but the resulting ...

Only three Americans have ever received one: Frank Sinatra, opera singer Jessye Norman and jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins. Rollins is widely seen as one of the masters of the instrument and ...