I'm warning you right now - I'm getting political with this one. For this video, I pulled out my song from about 7 years ago called SaxObamaRama from the Angel Biscuit album and used it to tell the story or Obama's many accomplishments despite the unabashed obstructionism from the GOP. Enjoy!
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7 Reasons Why The Saxophone Is So Popular
It seems that everyone loves the sax. People tell me constantly how much they love the sax (you probably do, too, or you wouldn't be reading this, right?).
But why? What is it about the sax that's so wonderfully cool? And why does it effect so many people so strongly? Hmm... seems obvious to me:
1. Sax music makes you feel good. The very sound of the sax does something to you. It touches you. It tickles your nervous system, in a good way. The very vibration of the instrument changes your vibration as you hear it.
2. The saxophone sounds great anytime, in just about any kind of music, and makes almost any band more fun to listen to, even lousy bands. Even country music. Even polkas!
3. Saxophones create great ambiance. The sax sounds hip, sophisticated, relaxed, sensuous and romantic, and always creates great atmosphere no matter where its played.
4. The sax looks cool. Even just the look of the instrument itself is artistic and fun. Even just having a sax laying around the room creates a hip ambiance. Having a saxophone in a room will always inspire interesting conversation.
5. Sax music takes you there. A good player can really take you places like no other instrument. Sure, guitar players would argue with that, but its true!
6. Sax players are cool people. Almost universally, saxophone players are hip and interesting people. And I know a lot of them.
7. Sax & Sex. And I think you know what I mean. Need I say more?
No matter where you here it, or in what context, the saxophone always sounds great, looks great, and creates great ambiance. And it makes you feel good when you hear it. That's why so many people love the saxophone!
Enjoy!More Presidents Should Play The Saxophone.
Say what you want to about Bill Clinton (the real first black president), but you have to admire his balls!
Why Choosing The Right Dinner Music Is So Important
As we all know, music is energy and the language of emotions and feelings. So, when you introduce music into your environment, what you're really doing is introducing energy. That energy can easily and powerfully influence the ambiance of that setting.
The question then becomes: what energetic influences do you want your gathering to be effected by? What songs and themes and sounds and instruments and timbres and rhythms will best reflect the mood you want to create?
As a saxophonist, I know that saxophone music that is smooth, soft, romantic, and easy listening is often just right for dinner music. The sound of the saxophone is, in and of itself, soothing and sophisticated. Its supportive to good conversation. It calms the soul and soothes the heart. It makes people feel good. Hearing it promotes a feeling that all is well in the world.
Sax music goes well with wine and good food. It compliments any environment that includes candles, good conversation, fine dining, good friends, elegant settings, and beautiful feelings. The saxophone, if played just right, promotes those feelings and evokes that ambiance. Of course, that feeling and that ambiance is all about love and healing and the uplifting of the spirit.
That's what music is so powerfully effective at doing: influencing emotion and feelings. Good music, music that uplifts and relaxes, is music that will help people feel good. So, while you might think that all you're doing is choosing the right dinner music, really, what you're doing is helping to spread energy into the world.
Finally, as a saxophonist, I've heard countless hundreds and thousands of people tell me how perfect sax music is for dining music. I've come to believe that the saxophone aids digestion.
You can see why its important to consider your dinner music carefully.
The question then becomes: what energetic influences do you want your gathering to be effected by? What songs and themes and sounds and instruments and timbres and rhythms will best reflect the mood you want to create?
As a saxophonist, I know that saxophone music that is smooth, soft, romantic, and easy listening is often just right for dinner music. The sound of the saxophone is, in and of itself, soothing and sophisticated. Its supportive to good conversation. It calms the soul and soothes the heart. It makes people feel good. Hearing it promotes a feeling that all is well in the world.
Sax music goes well with wine and good food. It compliments any environment that includes candles, good conversation, fine dining, good friends, elegant settings, and beautiful feelings. The saxophone, if played just right, promotes those feelings and evokes that ambiance. Of course, that feeling and that ambiance is all about love and healing and the uplifting of the spirit.
That's what music is so powerfully effective at doing: influencing emotion and feelings. Good music, music that uplifts and relaxes, is music that will help people feel good. So, while you might think that all you're doing is choosing the right dinner music, really, what you're doing is helping to spread energy into the world.
Finally, as a saxophonist, I've heard countless hundreds and thousands of people tell me how perfect sax music is for dining music. I've come to believe that the saxophone aids digestion.
You can see why its important to consider your dinner music carefully.
How To Create More Romance In Your Life
Ah, romance, that wonderful and exciting feeling, that most glorious intertwining of two hearts. So intense, such a high, but so fleeting, and so often for so many once gone never to return. But does it have to be that way?
Can we intentionally create and sustain more romance in our lives? Most folks profess to want more romance in their lives. Indeed, for some, romance is a goal unto itself, or at least high on the list of goals for their love relationships. But if having romance in our committed love relationships is a highly prized goal, and if so many people want more of it in their lives, how can we create, cultivate, and encourage it?
What concrete steps can we take to make sure that romance takes seed and flourishes? The purpose of this article is to explore the idea that romance begins in your heart-center and grows outward, and is, to some significant degree, a reflection of how you feel about yourself.
In other words, by romancing yourself first you can create the conditions that allow you to experience and express romance with another more easily.
Listen: your capacity to love and accept yourself is the measure of your capacity to love and accept others. The same can be said for romance: your ability and willingness to create romance within is the measure of the romance you can help create in a committed loving relationship.
True romance isn’t just about flowers and poems. Flowers and poems are great, of course, but are really just an extension of a feeling that comes from within, something that starts in, and flows from, the heart. Without that heart-felt feeling, flowers and poems are but an attempt be to romantic, not an expression of true romance.
So how do you create more romance in your life? Begin by romancing yourself. Love, accept, and forgive yourself on a deep level. Treat yourself with respect and understanding. Buy yourself flowers. Write yourself a poem. Treat yourself with respect and dignity. And remember: if you don’t love yourself first, you can’t truly love another.
And remember that it is far more important to be the right person than to find the right person. Our relationships are a reflection of the relationship we have with ourselves. Romance, too, is a reflection of that inner state. By first creating romance within, you’ll be well on your way to creating more romance in your life.
Can we intentionally create and sustain more romance in our lives? Most folks profess to want more romance in their lives. Indeed, for some, romance is a goal unto itself, or at least high on the list of goals for their love relationships. But if having romance in our committed love relationships is a highly prized goal, and if so many people want more of it in their lives, how can we create, cultivate, and encourage it?
What concrete steps can we take to make sure that romance takes seed and flourishes? The purpose of this article is to explore the idea that romance begins in your heart-center and grows outward, and is, to some significant degree, a reflection of how you feel about yourself.
In other words, by romancing yourself first you can create the conditions that allow you to experience and express romance with another more easily.
Listen: your capacity to love and accept yourself is the measure of your capacity to love and accept others. The same can be said for romance: your ability and willingness to create romance within is the measure of the romance you can help create in a committed loving relationship.
True romance isn’t just about flowers and poems. Flowers and poems are great, of course, but are really just an extension of a feeling that comes from within, something that starts in, and flows from, the heart. Without that heart-felt feeling, flowers and poems are but an attempt be to romantic, not an expression of true romance.
So how do you create more romance in your life? Begin by romancing yourself. Love, accept, and forgive yourself on a deep level. Treat yourself with respect and understanding. Buy yourself flowers. Write yourself a poem. Treat yourself with respect and dignity. And remember: if you don’t love yourself first, you can’t truly love another.
And remember that it is far more important to be the right person than to find the right person. Our relationships are a reflection of the relationship we have with ourselves. Romance, too, is a reflection of that inner state. By first creating romance within, you’ll be well on your way to creating more romance in your life.
The Saxophone Loves You
As a saxophonist and recording artist who's out and about quite a bit, I constantly hear from people who tell me how the sound of the saxophone effects them in their hearts, their souls, and their lives. There is something about the sound of the saxophone that has a clear and profound effect on many, many people.
Here are a few typical comments I hear on a very regular basis:
"It puts me in the mood, and helps me to remember how lucky I am to have someone to love."
"...it is soothing and healing to my heart and soul."
"The sounds just captivate and take the mind to a beautiful day."
"The music actually helps me to purge the day's stresses and cleanse the thoughts that I don't want to carry over into the next day."
"...it put me into a trance. In my mind I was transported to a Paris street side café looking into the eyes of my wife; it was a magical daydream - the air was filled with love."
Now I've been playing the saxophone for over 50 years and I do have some modest talent on the instrument. However, the point I'm making in this article has nothing to do with me. It has to do with the saxophone itself, and how the very sound of the saxophone effects the human nervous system. {C}{C}
The point is that people love the saxophone!
Why? What it is about the instrument that inspires such reaction? Why is it such an attractive, compelling, magnetic, and powerful instrument?
My answer? Because the saxophone loves you. Think about it. The saxophone has a warm, sensual, romantic, embracing sound, the very sound of love. It relaxes the mind and uplifts the heart. It inspires thoughts and feelings of love and romance. In some very real way, the psycho-chemical reaction to the sound of the saxophone is the same psycho-chemical reaction that takes place when you are actually experiencing love.
True, the conclusions I am drawing are not scientific. I am not aware of any studies that have been done regarding the physics of the sound of the saxophone and how it effects human body chemistry (although I think that would be cool). Nevertheless, it seems obvious from the extraordinary popularity of the instrument and how passionately people react to it that the saxophone has a powerful and profound effect on the human nervous system.
It is said that the saxophone sounds more like the human voice than any other instrument. Perhaps this is part of the mystique and power of the instrument. But one thing is clear: sounds made by the saxophone resonate in a very specific way with the vibration of the human beingness. If played just right, the sound of the saxophone causes a powerful sympathetic vibration with the human nervous system.
So next time you hear a saxophone played just the way you like it, and you start thinking to yourself, "Ooh, yeah, that sounds nice!" remember this: the saxophone doesn't just sound good.
The saxophone loves you.
Here are a few typical comments I hear on a very regular basis:
"It puts me in the mood, and helps me to remember how lucky I am to have someone to love."
"...it is soothing and healing to my heart and soul."
"The sounds just captivate and take the mind to a beautiful day."
"The music actually helps me to purge the day's stresses and cleanse the thoughts that I don't want to carry over into the next day."
"...it put me into a trance. In my mind I was transported to a Paris street side café looking into the eyes of my wife; it was a magical daydream - the air was filled with love."
Now I've been playing the saxophone for over 50 years and I do have some modest talent on the instrument. However, the point I'm making in this article has nothing to do with me. It has to do with the saxophone itself, and how the very sound of the saxophone effects the human nervous system. {C}{C}
The point is that people love the saxophone!
Why? What it is about the instrument that inspires such reaction? Why is it such an attractive, compelling, magnetic, and powerful instrument?
My answer? Because the saxophone loves you. Think about it. The saxophone has a warm, sensual, romantic, embracing sound, the very sound of love. It relaxes the mind and uplifts the heart. It inspires thoughts and feelings of love and romance. In some very real way, the psycho-chemical reaction to the sound of the saxophone is the same psycho-chemical reaction that takes place when you are actually experiencing love.
True, the conclusions I am drawing are not scientific. I am not aware of any studies that have been done regarding the physics of the sound of the saxophone and how it effects human body chemistry (although I think that would be cool). Nevertheless, it seems obvious from the extraordinary popularity of the instrument and how passionately people react to it that the saxophone has a powerful and profound effect on the human nervous system.
It is said that the saxophone sounds more like the human voice than any other instrument. Perhaps this is part of the mystique and power of the instrument. But one thing is clear: sounds made by the saxophone resonate in a very specific way with the vibration of the human beingness. If played just right, the sound of the saxophone causes a powerful sympathetic vibration with the human nervous system.
So next time you hear a saxophone played just the way you like it, and you start thinking to yourself, "Ooh, yeah, that sounds nice!" remember this: the saxophone doesn't just sound good.
The saxophone loves you.
7 Reasons Why Music Is So Important
Everyone loves music. Music is everywhere, it pervades our world. Everyone knows music has power and importance. But have you ever stopped to consider why? What it is about music that gives it so much power and importance?
Here are 7 top reasons:
Here are 7 top reasons:
- Music is a universal language. It inspires common human feelings and bridges gaps between cultures that spoken languages cannot. It brings people together and creates universal community.
- Music inspires and evokes emotion in a healthy way. It touches our emotional being and evokes moods and feelings that are sometimes difficult to express. It can change a difficult mood and make it happy or excited; it can change a light mood and take it deeper and more profound.
- Music enhances learning and makes it more enjoyable. It is scientifically proven that music enhances brain functioning. Playing music uses many brain functions simultaneously: motor control, imagination, hearing, sight, memory, etc.
- Music creates ambiance. You can use music in any environment to enhance and augment what is already there. Consider the difference between a party with music and one without, or a sporting event, or a movie, or a romantic restaurant, or driving in your car...
- Music is spiritual. Music is of the spirit and inspirational to the spirit. All religions use music to help express spiritual values, and all religions use music to uplift the spirit.
- Music sparks the imagination. It invokes mental imagery and inner scenery that opens the mind to amazing insight and spans the distance between the stars.
- Music is a simple pleasure. All it takes is your ears and your imagination.