sonny rollins

Charles Parker was an alto sax player;Rollins play a tenor and occasionally a soprano sax.

In addition to the fine recording mentioned above,allow me to add anything recorded by the Clifford Brown/Max Roach quintet-of which Rollins was a member.

I love Sonny but wish he'd never adopted electric bass in his band.

Second greatest tenor sax living legend is Joe Henderson (at least I think he's still around).

I saw him a couple of years ago in Minneapolis. He wasn't as good as he used to be but one must consider his age (still great though). I read an interview in which he was asked why he didn't play some of his early stuff. He relied that "they are too difficult". I thought it was a funny rely.