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

I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man.

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

Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the bigger scene anyway.

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.

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.

Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns