World's Greatest Tenors

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

Zoot45 yes,the OP listed jazz tenor saxophonists to get this initiated. .

O-10, busted, guilty as charged! You are correct about where he was when
he passed. Brain fart likely due to recently having been talking to a friend
about another alto giant, Johnny Hodges, and his recording of "Blood
Count" by Billy Strayhorn; which Strayhorn wrote while dying in his
hospital bed. What Bird was doing, which was the part germane to the
discussion (his admiration of Dorsey), is well documented and part of jazz
lore. Man, I have to tighten up my game :-) Regards.