Fraser MacPherson discusses his career status.

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Fraser MacPherson discusses the draw to play larger cities.

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Fraser MacPherson discusses his travels through touring.

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Q: “There are times when you can think ‘that mainstream thing is tapped out’ and then we hear a Buck Hill or a Fraser MacPherson and all of a sudden there’s a new voice in that style music! It’s unfortunate that we haven’t heard you more…”

A: “Well, it's curious, very nice of you … should say that, but it's also curious because the tenor is something I never thought much about or worked on. I took it up. Well, I took up clarinet as a teenager and then the alto saxophone and when I started working in Vancouver, it began. Ray Norris needed a tenor, so I borrowed one and I played it and had a bit of fun and then I eventually bought one, but my main work all the time was I used to play lead alto on all the … pretty well all the commercial work, radio and television and that sort of thing. And clarinet in the studios and later on, flute. And I worked pretty hard on those instruments. And the tenor was just something for fun. You know, I'd never ... I don’t ever remember practicing it, but I would get it out and find a reed and Dave Robbins used to hire me to play tenor on the old jazz workshop series in CBC and that's about the only tenor playing I did. I enjoyed it and I had a lot of fun, but then I used it in quintet groups I had in night clubs, but you know, commercial work. So there we go in the last several years, I've reached a point where I wanted to have some fun and the tenor was the one to do it with, I guess.”