You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.
This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear.
People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy.
The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra.
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.
When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.
In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.
People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time.
I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.