In a recent trip to Chicago, we decided to take in some great Jazz music. There is a small jazz club on Rush Street, the Back Room, that brings in some of the best talent that Jazz has to offer. Because the club is so small, you are up close and personal with everyone.

The music is so good that you quickly forget that the person at the next table is almost sitting in your lap. When the band lays it down...you quickly forget where and who you are with.

Last night was no exception. The Bobby Lewis Quartet was putting it all together.

Which brings me to my topic...Is there anyone alive who does not enjoy a great saxophone solo?

There is something about the sax that is hypnotic. It rounds the sharp edges. It's high and mid range tones bring the instrument so close to emulating the human voice. When sax solos, you are taken to another dimension and time. It's sound reverberating, entrancing while sounds change in a rapid fire sequence. Then it slows down, the color changes. Your frame of mind changes. You go from high energy room.. tapping your foot and rocking side to side, to a very calm....serene....placid place. The color changes from a very bright vivid color...energy packed to dark and subdued.

Turn on you local "Smooth Jazz" radio station for a few songs. One of them will feature a sax solo. Note how your mood changes. Just maybe it's what the doctor ordered for that "day from hell". I will assure you, the sound will take you to heaven just long enough to put your soul at ease.

Listen to some Jazz music..... and your day will look much better.