Music makes many people feel closer to God, or closer to what they regard as The Universal Good, or the Life Force or Higher Power. That is certainly true for me, but the music that brings me there, that spins my soul into the clouds in sweet release isn't "churchy" music or New Age softsounds or opera or country western -- it is jazz, real, bopping, serious jazz. It is Dizzy and 'Trane and Ella and Sarah and Sonny and Lady Day. It is Duke and MJQ and Bill Evans, Monk, Miles and Bird. It is Carmen McRae, Abbey Lincoln, Joe Williams, Mel Torme, and Billy Ekstine., too.