Tenor Madness
by Sonny Rollins
🎷 Jazz
Difficulty
★★★☆☆
Tuning
Standard
Capo
None
A swinging Bb blues from the legendary 1956 session where Rollins and Coltrane traded solos. The head features a rhythmically inventive melody built on simple blues vocabulary with Rollins' signature motivic development.
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B|---6--8--6-----8--6--8--10--8--6-----------------|
G|---7--7--7-----7--7--7--10--7--7-----------------|
D|---8--8--8-----8--8--8--10--8--8-----------------|
A|---6--8--6-----8--6--8--10--8--6-----------------|
E|------------------------------------------------|
e|---6--8--10--11--10--8--6----8--6--4--3--6------|
B|---6--8--10--11--10--8--6----8--6--4--3--6------|
G|---7--7--10--11--10--7--7----7--7--4--3--7------|
D|---8--8--10--11--10--8--8----8--8--4--5--8------|
A|---6--8--10--11--10--8--6----8--6--4--3--6------|
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