Sam Most discusses the tonality of his flute playing.

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Q: “Your playing has a marvelous mix of tenor of the breathiness and warmth and the intimacy of Ben Webster but more of a tone and the fluency of Lester Young. It’s an amazing combination that works very, very well…”

A: “I'm glad you noticed that because to say there are some musicians who kind of pick up on the Aces Bar. You are a marvelous tenor player, you know, just kind of underrated because, you know, you're recognized as a flute player, and I always appreciate that when someone sees that, you know, there is something because I spent a lot of time listening to Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, or to anybody. You know, this thing gets ... just tenor players because, you know, and not to mention that I have listened to alto players like Bird Zarrin [ph]. It's just a kind of a warm instrument, particularly as they say try to, whatever it is, absorb the things and come out with my own thing. But it's jazz instruments that's still around that I dig playing, you know, but I'm kind of noted in a lot of places … and of course, it is my most fluid instrument, it's the flute. The flute, you know, I feel like, I guess, special affinity with that, but if you say I have that album with some tenor playing on it. You know, who came over to me, I guess, I was passing him on the street, Bill Holman. Remember Bill, the writer? Well, among many, he just comes to mind and as I say I was passing him and he says, "Oh, I enjoyed your tenor work. I heard it on the radio." He says it's beautiful, you know, things like that.”