When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.

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.

Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones

The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

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

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