Big Blue Tenor Sax

Excellent suggestions thus far. Grimace, if you're equally open to tenor sax work with strings - while I love trios and quartets too - may I suggest Denis Solee's materials, slow tempo standards, all in newer high quality recordings you won't be disappointed.

Jimmy Forrest - Bolo Blues. I guarantee it!

I just realized this cut can be found on youtube. The CD album is titled "out of the Forrest"

Bennie Wallace, 'Big Jim's Tango' with Dave Holland and Elvin Jones on the Enja label. Terrific trio record.

Ed Wiley, Jr. 'About the Soul' A Texas tenorman who just passed away last year. This 2005 recording - very well recorded recording - is dripping blues, with Kenny Baron, Mickey Roker and Jimmy Ponder among the sidemen.

Apparently I've already got a pretty deep list of this stuff, so I'll pass it along.