[KDawg]

there are limitations to the pick for a guitar player. With the sax, the way that one can progress chromatically over chords is very unique to the sax and sax only.

As far as rollins goes, check out anything from Saxophone Collosus. St. Thomas is probably the one to really look for with Strode Rode a close second. He also utterly kills Moritat(mack the knife) with an amazing 4 1/2 minute solo that is pure innovation.

Sonny Rollins is my main influence. I have always enjoyed Trane, but from the first time I ever heard Sonny Rollins, it just clicked with me. His tone from that period is just off the charts. He uses the Coleman Hawkins/Don Byas(he was probably more influenced by Byas who was vastly under rated) tone and all sorts of hard bop sensibilities.

I'd also recommend checking out Hank Mobley, especially how he plays on This I dig of You, No Room for Squares, and I remember you. In fact, all of Hank Mobley's stuff from Blue Note is just pure gold.