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Who played in Kenny G live?

#483
Dear Pat,

Please put that guitar club down and stop threatening people. There's nothing wrong with dubbing in your own licks on other people's music. Lighten up, relax, and just enjoy doing your own thing.


Signed,

Jeff Berlin

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#485
TimWilson said:
As a brief dip of the collective toe back into the original swamp of this thread, let me just state for the record that Vail Johnson is an absolute MONSTER of bass guitar, making a good living doing what most us WISH we could. And as if that weren't enough, he's an INCREDIBLY nice, generous, and humble dude. I've met more than my share of pro musicians, and Vail is one of the small handful that you come away from feeling like you'd really like to just hang out with sometime...
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So much I suppose that no one gives him a hard time for derailing the original topic of the thread!:D
 
#486
I saw the show last night (thanks to VAIL) and I must say it was one of the best shows I have seen in a long time:) Kenny G has a band FULL on absolute monsters:) To all the haters out there, go check out his show. Then re-read Pat Methaney's article. I bet you you'd wonder, what the hell was he was talking about? After seeing the show, I can honestly say that I didn't see anything even remotely close to what was said By Mr. Methaney. Oh, and the lady's were lovin every minute of it. Just my 2 cents :)
 
#487
DougD said:
I saw the show last night (thanks to VAIL) and I must say it was one of the best shows I have seen in a long time:) Kenny G has a band FULL on absolute monsters:) To all the haters out there, go check out his show. Then re-read Pat Methaney's article. I bet you you'd wonder, what the hell was he was talking about? After seeing the show, I can honestly say that I didn't see anything even remotely close to what was said By Mr. Methaney. Oh, and the lady's were lovin every minute of it. Just my 2 cents :)
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+1 ;) Did you get to meet Vail?
 
#488
DougD said:
I saw the show last night (thanks to VAIL) and I must say it was one of the best shows I have seen in a long time:) Kenny G has a band FULL on absolute monsters:) To all the haters out there, go check out his show. Then re-read Pat Methaney's article. I bet you you'd wonder, what the hell was he was talking about? After seeing the show, I can honestly say that I didn't see anything even remotely close to what was said By Mr. Methaney. Oh, and the lady's were lovin every minute of it. Just my 2 cents :)
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Huge + 1...:)
I saw the show last Wednesday. The wife and I had a great time.Music and musicians were superb. I got to meet Vail after the show, he is down to earth and a great guy (of course a MONSTER player).......


THANKS VAIL!!!
 
#489
Bruce Lindfield said:
I think it shows you that somebody can be the most dedicated musician possible - but it doesn't mean anything - in the end it all comes down to taste and that is a very personal and subjective thing!
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That goes without saying. Being dedicated is one thing and you as the person have control of that, people liking you is another and you don't have much control of that unless of course you cater to their taste.
 
#494
ok...what i'm trying to understand in this thread is who among any of us really has the wherewithall to say we know what is good or correct where all people are concerned? there is no right or wrong way to play music...PERIOD!!! music, as a whole, is self expression. each individual that plays music is saying what they feel and we aren't all expected to like it but we're not supposed to dog it either. the same way we don't like someone elses music, they may not like ours but i don't think any of us are perfect enough to say what is good music or bad music...it is all an opinion. i don't understand all there is to understand about what we say ia 'good' jazz or jazz at all for that matter...i would safely bet none of us do. all we know is what we as individuals like and we need to stop dogging what we don't like and try listening a little deeper to it...we just might be suprised!
 
#495
Its easy to condemn smooth jazz and pop influenced jazz as lacking technicality or whatever, but the fact is that smooth jazz is more accessible to a lot of potential fans than more avante garde formats. Its listenable, it appeals to structures that folks are familiar with, and it introduces a lot of potential fans to instrumentations outside the pop music norm. I know of at least one acquaintance whose introduction to jazz was through Kenny G. He discovered he enjoyed the timbre of the saxophone. Before long he was listening to Coltrane.

I think this epic, multi-year debate speaks to a wider issue plaguing musicians: there is often a lot of negativity and resentment directed towards successful artists whose music isn't considered "hardcore" enough by other musicians. Kenny G, of whom I'm not an unabashed fan, crafted his audience over decades by playing music that many people (musos and non-musos alike) love dearly. I applaud him - how many people can claim to have essentially crafted a genre as broadly encompassing as smooth jazz? There is also some blow back against the performers who support those artists. Folks may not care for Yanni, but Ric Fierabracci is a monster player - one of the best in my opinion. Tim Landers played for John Tesh AND Al Di Meola. If you watch a Kenny G concert, you're going to see some seriously talented performers who really know how to blow. And they're no doubt making a good living at it.
 

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