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Sonny Rollins said he wasn’t giving his best stuff on
Tenor Madness (the title track only; not the entire album). Ironically, he says it was because he was playing with
Coltrane whom he didn’t respect yet. It was in 56 which turned out to be a great year for
Coltrane and playing on the
Rollins classic was definitely a highlight.
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I wasn’t really playing. Coltrane was playing. I was only playing halfway, because I thought that I was the guy and that Coltrane was this young whippersnapper. That was my mind-set.
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