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

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

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.

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

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

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

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