Saxual Healing

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#		Title	Length
1		Saxual Healing	5:31	Play
2		Just Right	4:17	Play
3		By Her Side (Keima's Song)	6:26	Play
4		Blue Light	4:43	Play
5		Lily Was Here	4:35	Play
6		Blackberries	4:31	Play
7		Fallin'	5:07	Play
8		Kundalini	5:02	Play
9		Baby, It's You	5:26	Play
10		Little Bit 'O Soul Now	5:43	Play

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Description

Review from CD Baby:

"What a wonderful sound! Beautiful sax tone, (sweet and smooth as hot butter)...as good as it gets. This guy can play!"

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Review from Broadjam.com:

"This is just as good as any smooth Jazz that I hear on radio stations across America."

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From Consensus Music Reviews:

"Killer chops on the sax, and smooth but vibrant compositions, this one sets a mood and rolls on with it."

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Mark Maxwell is one of the best-selling saxophonists in the world. His independent and self-promoted 17 solo releases have sold more than 450,000 copies.

Here's the story about "Saxual Healing:"

Late one night, back in early 2001 (Jan. 26, at 11:41 P.M. to be exact), Roberta and I were in the kitchen, candles lit, windows open to the cool breeze, drinking wine and eating blackberries. This was just a couple of weeks after we met.

We were talking about music, and I was telling her how easy it is for me to pick songs out of the air. To show off, I grabbed a little piece of paper and scratched down the little riff that was playing in my head. There's always a little riff playing in my head so it was easy. I wrote "Blackberries" across the top of the page, put it away, and we went on with our evening.

I never forgot about "Blackberries", though, and a few years later I got that little piece of paper out and built a tune around that little riff: Blackberries. Its one of the tunes on this new CD. You can see that original chart here (http://romanticsaxmusic.com/stories/blackberries_chart.htm) if you want to.

Over time this song has come to symbolize a particular energy that our relationship had when we first met, a romantic energy that we have worked hard at keeping in our hearts.

So this CD was originally going to be called "Blackberries." But over time the whole saxual healing concept has gotten so strong that we eventually decided that "Saxual Healing" was a more authentic title for what we were doing. Also, I wrote a song called Saxual Healing that turned out sounding like a title track, so there you go: Saxual Healing.

But there is another layer to this project, a deeper layer, a layer having to do with my being a conduit for Roberta's vision and energy. You see, for this project I agreed to act as an expressive instrument for Roberta's self-healing. I recorded music that was what she wanted and needed to hear, and in the process, helped illicit and express her deepest emotions in a profound way. It was a very healing experience for both of us.

Since everything on this CD was designed to give her words an emotional musical sound, I sometimes really had to get out of the way. But I got what I needed out of it, too. I had a great time, and I love this music that came to be. I hope you do, too.

Joy to you!

-Mark Maxwell