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.

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

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

Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.

This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear

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