Gerry Mulligan — American Musician born on April 06, 1927, died on January 20, 1996

Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger. Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history – playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz – he was also a notable arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others. Mulligan's pianoless quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the more important cool jazz groups. Mulligan was also a skilled pianist and played several other reed instruments... (wikipedia)

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.
I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.
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.
This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear.
I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.