When [Billy] Strayhorn came on the scene, he just blew us away.

The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing

The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it

I would think, of all the saxophones, the baritone would be the most logical instrument if anybody was adding a voice to the symphony orchestra.

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.