World's Greatest Tenors

Classical: Fritz Wunderlich singing Schumann: Dichterliebe
Jazz: John Coltrane

Frogman! This is the first time I've had to correct you on anything, and I wouldn't now; but, "Another fascinating account is that Bird died in his hospital bed while watching the Dorsey Brother's TV show." Where did you get that from?

- Parker died on March 12, 1955 in the suite of his friend and patron Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter at the Stanhope Hotel in New York.

Case closed

Enjoy the music.

There's nothing I hate worse than getting into the middle of other people's conversation; but this time I'm compelled and can not resist my compulsion.

Since we're acquainted, I do so with the greatest respect for the honorable Frogman, and Charles1dad. Miles Davis was "nobody" when he went to New York looking for Bird.

"I was standing outside the club on the corner when I heard this voice from behind me say "Hey Miles! I heard you been looking for me!"

"I turned around and there was Bird. When he remembered where he had met me, I was the happiest MF on earth." That was in 1944, and for years, if you saw Bird, Miles wasn't far behind.

Now that I've crashed someone else's thread, I'm obligated to answer the question; while Trane is number one, Sonny Rollins and Ike Quebec are my personal preferences; at the same time, I wouldn't care to debate other preferences; the best tenor is usually the one I'm listening to at that time.

Enjoy the music.

I listen to Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Wayne Shorter, Zoot Sims, John Coltrane, Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon, Coleman Hawkins, Joe Henderson mostly

We're talking jazz tenors... not singers