SONNY ROLLINS Tenor Madness COLTRANE DCC Audiophile
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Description
SONNY ROLLINS Tenor Madness New & Sealed Vinyl LP
Record label/brand: Prestige LP 7047/DCC LPZ 2008 upc/mpn: None year: 1956
Remastered by Steve Hoffman on DCC’s vintage Vacuum-Tube Playback System, this is DCC's audiophile re-release of Sonny Rollin's 1956 jazz release, "Tenor Madness."
Limited edition (No. 1466). 180g, pure virgin vinyl, analogue pressing.
DCC has gone out of business and their fantastic sounding audiophile releases are in high demand. Get this one while you still can!
Songs:
Side 1 1. My Reverie 2. Paul's Pal
Side 2 3. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World 4. When Your Lover Has Gone 5. Tenor Madness
Review: Tenor Madness is most notable for its title track, the only known recording featuring both Rollins and John Coltrane.
Rollins and Coltrane had both been members of groups with Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk in the past. Rollins had had some recent success with his albums Saxophone Colossus and Sonny Rollins Plus 4, and both were emerging as prominent solo tenor saxophone players.
Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones, had been recording with Davis at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in New Jersey (sessions that would later go on to provide material for the albums Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, and Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet). At the same time, and at the same studio, Rollins was working on the albums Sonny Rollins Plus 4 and Three Giants. As it was common at the time for jazz musicians recording in the same studio to record some sessions together, Rollins and Davis' group recorded together, though without Davis, material which later went on to be Tenor Madness.
The title track is a twelve-minute duet between Rollins and Coltrane, and the B-flat blues melody has become very well known for Rollins. It is easy to distinguish between the two saxophonists, as Coltrane has a much brighter and boisterous sound as compared to Rollins' smoother, "wet-reed" tone. However, as jazz critic Dan Krow said, the two complement each other, and the track does not sound like a competition between the two rising saxophonists.
"Paul's Pal", a jumpy swing track, is a Rollins composition, named for Miles Davis Quintet bassist (and bassist on this album) Paul Chambers. "When Your Lover Has Gone" is a 1931 composition by Einar Aaron Swan, re-interpreted here as a drum-driven blues track. The Clinton & Debussy ballad "My Reverie" is one of Rollins' most prominent examples of his lyrical skills from his 1950s' recordings. "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World", a tune from the 1935 musical Jumbo, is a Rodgers & Hart composition which goes here from a jazz waltz to a fast-paced 4/4 tune.
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