The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra.

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It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

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

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

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The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.

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