Tenor Madness is a tune written by the great Sonny Rollins premiered on his 1956 album by the same name released by Prestige records and featuring John Coltrane also on tenor sax. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MkUvZUTFUc This website his several resources for you on how to play this tune. First and foremost, I encourage you to learn the melody from the recording. You can use a real book, but sometimes the chords are wrong, so I advise to use the recording first. Once…

Below you will find a chord chart for Tenor Madness written by Sonny Rollins. Scroll down until you see your part. You can print the page you need, or use the Download button below to download the PDF to your computer. Tenor-Madness-Chords-v2-PartsDownload Below is the original recording of this blues by Sonny Rollins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MkUvZUTFUc

Below you will find sheet music for Tenor Madness 2 note voicings for piano and a sample bass line with notes written in for convenience. When constructing a bass line, I incorporated a I - vi - ii - V7 turnaround during the last two measures, but that would be dependent on what others were playing on the bandstand. I also incorporated a ii - V7 turnaround in measure 8 per the recording (although this is not on any of…