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.
From Gerry Mulligan
Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.
If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.
I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.
You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it.
The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.
It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.
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.
So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.
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