I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.

My roots are in my record player.

So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known.

Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!

When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.