The Vinyl Countdown # 1583

Sonny Rollins, Tenor Madness (1956)

It’s the title track that was the selling point – Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane duking it out – but it’s the least interesting track on the album for me (still, it is the selling point). One of my favourite albums of all time – one of the early touchstones for me as a young jazz fan, as someone learning about the gen…