In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

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.

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.

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

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.

The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.