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

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

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.

I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.

I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.

In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone