Tenor Madness Sonny Rollins Quartet

• 1 Tenor Madness 12:15
• 2 When Your Lover Has Gone 06:13
• 3 Paul's Pal 05:12
• 4 My Reverie 06:09
• 5 The Most Beautiful Girl In The World 05:34
• Total Runtime 35:23

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It's interesting to contrast Sonny Rollins' playing here, backed by the 1956 Miles Davis rhythm section, and his work with Ray Brown/Max Roach Incorporated. Certainly if Clifford Brown hadn't died that summer in an auto wreck, Rollins and his PLUS FOUR teammates would have continued to rival the creative output of the heralded Davis Quintet. Here, Rollins and special guest John Coltrane get right down to it on the classic riff 'Tenor Madness.' Coltrane is still zeroing in on his sound, while Sonny has found his (for now). Coltrane chases the blue trains, the snakes and the wind on a fulminating solo, ending with a hint of 'Stranger In Paradise.' Rollins replies coyly--his sense of space and phrasing more akin to Miles--painting with clouds, patiently elongating his line out of dozens of little melodic motifs, teasing Philly Joe until he busts, finishing with a counterpunching flurry of his own. As Coltrane and Rollins trade riffs and choruses, you can hear them commenting favorably on each others' inventions until they're practically one voice.

For the remainder of „Tenor Madness“, Rollins contents himself to nurse the most possible melody and swing out of a few smokey orbs of sound, in the manner of mid '50s Lester Young. With 'When Your Lover Has Gone' Sonny sets a relaxed groove atop Garland's magic chordal carpet, letting the action come to him, before giving way to a brilliant Chambers aria and a masterful Philly Joe solo. 'Paul's Pal' and 'My Reverie' are also given slow soulful treatments, while 'The Most Beautiful Girl' concludes things at a brighter tempo, as Rollins toys with his beat like a cat with a mouse, before pouncing on it with Parker-ish rhythmic drive.

'Coltrane's fearlessness is front and center as he takes the first solo, firing flurries and fusillades from the high end of his tenor sax. He is definitely on his game for the time. He's a willing teammate as he trades fours with Rollins on an ending dialogue where the two players happily finish each other's thoughts... Rollins shows his romantic-ballad side on 'When Your Lover Has Gone' and 'My Reverie', gets playful on 'Paul's Pal' (his tribute to bassist Paul Chambers), and upends Rodgers and Hart's 'The Most Beautiful Girl In The World' when he switches mid-stream from a waltz to a fast 4/4... It's a given that John Coltrane was a miraculous player; his cameo here shows how far he went to become that way.' (J. Hunter, AllAboutJazz)

Sonny Rollins, tenor saxophone, piano
John Coltrane, tenor saxophone
Red Garland, piano
Paul Chambers, upright bass
Philly Joe Jones, drums

Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey on May 24, 1956

Digitally remastered

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