With the wonderful sax of Oklahoma's own Chris Hicks, this smooth jazz original of mine from 2001 is kind of a stand-out, I think. It's called "Nocturnal".

A lot of times in instrumental songwriting, I blend ideas together. In other words, often I don't write a singular, cohesive song. In this case, the foundation for the verse was taken from something I saw my dad play back in 2000. It was a progression, one that I morphed into the entire verse.

However, all of this is merely the setup for the chorus, which is one of the stronger I've written if I may say so myself. Chris interpreted the melody in the middle of the chorus a bit differently than I did, but it works out.

But you have to stick around at least until the bridge. He slam dunked the bridge, essentially concatenating his melody on top of mine. What a wonderful musician.

Anyway, if you dig smooth jazz, I hope you'll give it a listen.