Re: Kenny G

Elson Trinidad (elson@westworld.com)
Thu, 11 Apr 1996 12:25:11 -0700 (PDT)


On 8 Apr 1996, Tony Reid wrote:

> one other thing, i think that if we are all honest, we'll realize
> that our beef w/mr. gorelick (kenny's last name for those who don't know)
> isn't really w/his playing, it w/his TUNES! i remember flying in a solo bit

To be honest, my main beef with Kenny G and his music isn't really
directed at him at all. It's at the bonehead Clive "Millivanilli" Davis
and his bonehead executives at Arista who wish to market his music as
"jazz." Please. Just because it's contemporary, and just because it's
instrumental, the idiots call it "jazz." (Gee, John Williams composes
contemporary instrumental music...is that jazz, too?) Kenny G's CORRECT
category is "instrumental pop" or "adult contemporary." Kenny G. is great
at what he does; he's a wonderful Instrumental Pop
saxophonist and composer, but he is *not* a jazz musician, and neither does
*he* think himself as one. He really thinks of himself as (and I quote)
"a pop singer who can't sing with his vocal chords, but uses a sax
instead."

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