Najee Quotes

I love playing all of them. I mean, I really do. It really depends on the song. I’m grateful that I—I think one of the greatest things that I got from Jazzmobile with Frank Foster and Jimmy Heath and Frank Wes is they conditioned us to become woodwind players or multi-instrumentalists as opposed to just saying “I’m just a saxophone player.” Because back then you still had the Broadway world with live musicians playing in the pits and commercials, if you got called for that, those guys would always be multi-instrumentalists. They’d come with clarinet, bassoons, the whole bit. Of course, that’s changed now, but because I come from that school of thinking, I never saw myself as just being a tenor player or an alto player or a soprano player or a flute player. I always thought that I enjoyed the idea of being a multi-instrumentalist and just trying to play all of them proficiently.
Najee