I agree with all of this. Saxophone is a highly expressive instrument... just not a pretty one. And I'm a huge Albert Ayler fan (which also gets back to melodic ideals... Ayler's great compositions are great in part because they're such simple, euphonic Circle-of-Fifths things, like folk music or gospel. To jazz nerds, Ayler is difficult. To non-nerds, Ayler is much easier to understand than most jazz.)