How does a tenor and soprano saxophonist get away from his omnipresent influence?
I think I became more aware of the importance of his presence later. In the formative time when I was experimenting myself, I wasn’t that aware of him. The earliest recollection I have of Evan was less to do with saxophone playing and more to do with being impressed at how he managed to bend the instrument to his will in a very unconventional way. The influence was less a technical thing, more that he’d shown that acoustic playing had a future, something I was doubting a little at the time. This was happening with a lot of people, how they were changing the nature of their instruments to do what they wanted. Changing the accepted norms of the instrument in terms of what they wanted to play. Early on, just by chance, I was more familiar with Derek Bailey than with Evan, and a lot of that drive came from listening to Derek. Like Evan, you’ve concentrated on tenor and soprano, but whereas his tenor playing has developed along lines quite different from his soprano work, you seem to use th
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