The Kenny G Corner..... Not

[Hardbopjazz]

He tops my list. This guy is so white bread, no spice or anything. His music is so boring that it could make someone on speed fall asleep.

I only wish he wouldn't be listed in the jazz section. But makes money doing what he does. Who can figure out the minds of the feeble music audience?

[Free For All]

Hardbop, you are rapidly becoming the king of thread starters! B)

[Rooster_Ties]

Can't wait for couw to post in this thread.

[Free For All]

Haven't we been down this road quite a few times already?

[wesbed]

I was never into Gorelick's style. But, I was able to tolerate him, not as a jazz player, but as a player of decent, modern, instrumental music. That is, till I read the interview he gave to Barnes & Noble. Now I think, what a egomaniac, ignorant, ass.

Remember this nonsense from the G-Boy?

KG: ...when you listen to Charlie Parker, on pretty much any record he's going to sound the same... Charlie Parker would squeak a lot, and that's why they called him Bird, because his reed would chirp.

B&N.com: You think that's why they called him Bird? That's interesting.

KG: That is why they called him Bird. That was the deal. He played so fast, and his reed would chirp because it... I don't know, it just couldn't take the speed of his fingers. But Sonny Stitt used to do it without the chirping thing, and played beautiful. But I don't think he ever got the same accolades that Charlie Parker did, mainly because Charlie Parker was the first one. Anyway, I know a lot about that kind of music, and I admire those players.

OMG!

[king ubu]

read my signature, that's all I gotta say on this topic

"They don't like Kenny G, so they didn't like the piece . . . A lot of sax players hate his sound, but I think it's kind of, uh, interesting. Plus he's the only person to have put an instrumental in the Top 40 in recent memory and you have to respect him for that. . . . Well you don't have to."

ubu

Edited March 24, 2004 by king ubu

[JSngry]

I said just about all I have to (seriously) say about Kenny G HERE.

(to those who click, apologies in advance for the difficulat color scheme. weren't my call).

[Jazzmoose]

Damn, Jim; that's some scary shit!

[Hardbopjazz]

I like it Jim. Enough said.

[chris olivarez]

This is a case of a legend(Bird) vs a legend in his own mind (G) and at least on this board Bird flies high!!! As far as I'm concerned G is still a pentatonic fairy fucker!!!

[BERIGAN]

Najee. Man, I thought that Stevie Wonder trib cd sucked, so naturally it was played to death at borders...and I see Scott Yanow gives it 4 1/2 stars!

[PHILLYQ]

Yanni is my nomination. I saw him one night on PBS in between interminable 'begging breaks', aka pledge drives, and his music is a morass of pretentious noodling that masquerades as something profound. yes, he looks serious when he plays it, but so do many others lacking in talent.

[Dave James]

Agree with everything that's been said about Mr. G, the particularly odious Yanni and anything else that hasn't been said about others who are cut from the same cloth. What's really scary is the numbers of people these lame-o's draw to their live performances. It just serves to confirm what I think we all already know. No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public...especially when it comes to music.

Up over and out.

[sal]

KG: ...when you listen to Charlie Parker, on pretty much any record he's going to sound the same... Charlie Parker would squeak a lot, and that's why they called him Bird, because his reed would chirp.

B&N.com: You think that's why they called him Bird? That's interesting.

KG: That is why they called him Bird. That was the deal. He played so fast, and his reed would chirp because it... I don't know, it just couldn't take the speed of his fingers. But Sonny Stitt used to do it without the chirping thing, and played beautiful. But I don't think he ever got the same accolades that Charlie Parker did, mainly because Charlie Parker was the first one. Anyway, I know a lot about that kind of music, and I admire those players.

Oh man......that's great! I'll be forwarding that one along to other jazz lovers I know....it will make their day.

[TedR]

John Tesh. I saw him on some show trying to rock. He came off as a real dork.

[Dan Gould]

John Tesh. I saw him on some show trying to rock. He came off as a real dork.

That can't be hard.

I mean, doesn't he come off as a real dork while eating his lunch, picking his teeth, boffing Connie Seleca, etc. etc.?

[Joe G]

These are all pretty easy targets, don't ya think?

[Big Al]

These are all pretty easy targets, don't ya think?

I dunno. G’s music is the only one that has ever made me angry. The Hallmark store I was in at Christmas-time played “Songbird” over the muzak; that one song emphasizes everything that’s wrong with his “music:” the soulless new-age accompaniment, the nasal-whine of G’s sax, and the endless repetition of the theme with absolutely NO improvisation. The fact that clueless people refer to this shit as jazz literally infuriates me.

[Joe G]

Well, I'll give you that. Not long ago I heard (for the first time) the infamous duet with Satchmo. Now I know why Metheny got so pissed!

[wesbed]

My Dad hates Gorelick. My Dad made the comment, "He plays his notes upside-down, the big end comes out first." If you listen to G-Boy's notes, they do sound this way. I began to really dislike Gorelick when I thought of his notes being played upside-down.

FYI: My Dad is a Paul Desmond person.

Edited March 26, 2004 by wesbed

[doubleM]

Dave Matthews couldn't grate much harder on my nerves. I remember hearing him for the first time, in my ex-wife's car...driving down to the courthouse to sign our divorce papers. I couldn't say anything because it was an emotional day, but it really felt like someone was taking a big explosive dump in my ears.

[Free For All]

The Hallmark store I was in at Christmas-time played “Songbird” over the muzak;

See, I think the department or grocery store is the perfect place for this kind of crap- wallpaper for shopping. I get kind of bugged when I hear good jazz (like Kind Of Blue or Time Out, which seem to be two jazz classics that have penetrated the main stream) presented as "muzak". Seems kind of sacreligous to me somehow. I can tune out G and his cronies just fine.

[chris olivarez]

Yanni is my nomination. I saw him one night on PBS in between interminable 'begging breaks', aka pledge drives, and his music is a morass of pretentious noodling that masquerades as something profound. yes, he looks serious when he plays it, but so do many others lacking in talent.

I would pay PBS not to play pretentious crap like this.

[Big Al]

See, I think the department or grocery store is the perfect place for this kind of crap- wallpaper for shopping. I get kind of bugged when I hear good jazz (like Kind Of Blue or Time Out, which seem to be two jazz classics that have penetrated the main stream) presented as "muzak". Seems kind of sacreligous to me somehow. I can tune out G and his cronies just fine.

Wish I could do that! Hearing the G-man strangle a sax is akin to hearing a dentist drill. Actually, it’s much MUCH worse: one doesn’t expect to hear a dentist drill in a shopping center!

[Big Al]

Oh, and completely agree about Dave Matthews. About as overrated as they come. The darling of self-involved teens who think they're too cool for Creed.