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

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy

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

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra

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.

Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.

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