If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.
I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.
I've appeared on some other people's albums.
In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.
New York is still where I live most of the time.
The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.
So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.
When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.
I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.
You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it.
Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.
This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear.
When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing.
