Ambrosious
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Christmas music by Kenny G?
It's one of my favorites.
It's one of my favorites.
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Ambrosious
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Beaker said:
Damn...just damn.
Lil-Brandi
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I love it, but...
If you are slightly tired when you start listening, give it up, you won't make it through the whole album!
If you are slightly tired when you start listening, give it up, you won't make it through the whole album!
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No. Nor his music from any of the other 364 days.
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Leap years?
Leap years?
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Kenny G
Kenny is awesome! I love his music. I own Song Bird, Breathless, The Moment, and Miracles (the Christmas album). His music is great to meditate to! It is so soothing and relaxing!
Kenny is awesome! I love his music. I own Song Bird, Breathless, The Moment, and Miracles (the Christmas album). His music is great to meditate to! It is so soothing and relaxing!
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Pat Metheny Rips Kenny G a New One
Sorry to spoil the party, but I couldn't resist a few excerpts from Pat Metheny's now-infamous comments on the G-man:
"kenny g is not a musician i really had much of an opinion about at all until recently...
...he did show a knack for connecting to the basest impulses of the large crowd by deploying his two or three most effective licks (holding long notes and playing fast runs - never mind that there were lots of harmonic clams in them) at key moments to elicit a powerful crowd reaction (over and over again.) the other main thing i noticed was that he also, as he does to this day, play horribly out of tune - consistently sharp.
>
...he sells an enormous amount of records while not being anywhere near a really great player in relation to the standards that have been set on his instrument over the past sixty or seventy years... there must be hundreds, if not thousands of sax players around the world who are simply better improvising musicians than kenny g on his chosen instruments.
>
...but, like i said at the top, this relatively benign view was all "until recently".
...not long ago, kenny g put out a recording where he overdubbed himself on top of a 30+ year old louis armstrong record, the track "what a wonderful world". with this single move, kenny g became one of the few people on earth i can say that i really can't use at all - as a man, for his incredible arrogance to even consider such a thing, and as a musician, for presuming to share the stage with the single most important figure in our music.
>
...when kenny g decided that it was appropriate for him to defile the music of the man who is probably the greatest jazz musician that has ever lived by spewing his lame-ass, jive, pseudo bluesy, out-of-tune, noodling, wimped out, fucked up playing all over one of the great louis's tracks (even one of his lesser ones), he did something that i would not have imagined possible. he, in one move, through his unbelievably pretentious and calloused musical decision to embark on this most cynical of musical paths, shit all over the graves of all the musicians past and present who have risked their lives by going out there on the road for years and years developing their own music inspired by the standards of grace that louis armstrong brought to every single note he played over an amazing lifetime as a musician.
...his callous disregard for the larger issues of what this crass gesture implies is exacerbated by the fact that the only reason he (could) possibly have for doing something this inherently wrong (on both human and musical terms) was for the record sales and the money it would bring. since that record came out - in protest, as insigificant as it may be, i encourage everyone to boycott kenny g recordings, concerts and anything he is associated with. if asked about kenny g, i will diss him and his music with the same passion that is in evidence in this little essay.
...everything i said here is exactly the same as what i would say to gorelick if i ever saw him in person. and if i ever DO see him anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind and (maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.)"
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I'm willing to bet those two guys don't exchange Christmas cookies...
Sorry to spoil the party, but I couldn't resist a few excerpts from Pat Metheny's now-infamous comments on the G-man:
"kenny g is not a musician i really had much of an opinion about at all until recently...
...he did show a knack for connecting to the basest impulses of the large crowd by deploying his two or three most effective licks (holding long notes and playing fast runs - never mind that there were lots of harmonic clams in them) at key moments to elicit a powerful crowd reaction (over and over again.) the other main thing i noticed was that he also, as he does to this day, play horribly out of tune - consistently sharp.
>
...he sells an enormous amount of records while not being anywhere near a really great player in relation to the standards that have been set on his instrument over the past sixty or seventy years... there must be hundreds, if not thousands of sax players around the world who are simply better improvising musicians than kenny g on his chosen instruments.
>
...but, like i said at the top, this relatively benign view was all "until recently".
...not long ago, kenny g put out a recording where he overdubbed himself on top of a 30+ year old louis armstrong record, the track "what a wonderful world". with this single move, kenny g became one of the few people on earth i can say that i really can't use at all - as a man, for his incredible arrogance to even consider such a thing, and as a musician, for presuming to share the stage with the single most important figure in our music.
>
...when kenny g decided that it was appropriate for him to defile the music of the man who is probably the greatest jazz musician that has ever lived by spewing his lame-ass, jive, pseudo bluesy, out-of-tune, noodling, wimped out, fucked up playing all over one of the great louis's tracks (even one of his lesser ones), he did something that i would not have imagined possible. he, in one move, through his unbelievably pretentious and calloused musical decision to embark on this most cynical of musical paths, shit all over the graves of all the musicians past and present who have risked their lives by going out there on the road for years and years developing their own music inspired by the standards of grace that louis armstrong brought to every single note he played over an amazing lifetime as a musician.
...his callous disregard for the larger issues of what this crass gesture implies is exacerbated by the fact that the only reason he (could) possibly have for doing something this inherently wrong (on both human and musical terms) was for the record sales and the money it would bring. since that record came out - in protest, as insigificant as it may be, i encourage everyone to boycott kenny g recordings, concerts and anything he is associated with. if asked about kenny g, i will diss him and his music with the same passion that is in evidence in this little essay.
...everything i said here is exactly the same as what i would say to gorelick if i ever saw him in person. and if i ever DO see him anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind and (maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.)"
* * * * * * * * * * * *
I'm willing to bet those two guys don't exchange Christmas cookies...
Temptress_1960
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Jazz beau -
If I may summarize your post:
Kenny G is an enormous waste of skin.
I personally am also not a Kenny fan.
If I may summarize your post:
Kenny G is an enormous waste of skin.
I personally am also not a Kenny fan.
Bobtoad777
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no Kenny g for me please
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