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

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time

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

Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

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.

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