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.

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

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.

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.

There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.

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