Toshiko Akiyoshi Smithsonian Interview Block 775 (Q18728)

So maybe clarity? Im not sure thats a good word. But um, in thinking of, um .. John Lewis and Billy Strayhorn, influence of European music, um--also the way you talk, you know, as a composer, also as orchestrator and arranger--theres so many different things (that) go into shaping the music. Now, you have somebody like Gil Evans, who mostly is known as orchestrator, arranger, rather than composer.