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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 12:15 am Post subject: Pat Metheny On Kenny G
This goes years back, but found the link on another forum and thought I'd post here as it always makes interesting reading.
http://www.jazzoasis.com/methenyonkennyg.htm _________________ Ed Yoon
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I can't but help agree with the man. You admire a player, you do a cover of a tune, you don't find a photo of the musician and airbrush in a picture of yourself with your arm around the guy (or the musical equivilent). It's crass. See Uli Jon Roth co-writing with Paganini
If you were particularly unfair, you could point out that there are plenty of living jazz greats to play alongside, I guess the dead can't protest that greatly, and the people managing the estate can possibly see no further than the immediate popularity of Kenny boosting sales.
I can imagine some philistine being wowed by the "colaboration" and thinking 'Kenny can't have been older than 12 when this was written and he sounds as smooth a he does today.'
Kudos to Pat for being vocal about his opinions. You can moan about snobbery, it's essentially no different to Oasis calling Robbie Williams a fat dancer... except in this case the argument has more worth and is better reasoned, it's the opinion of a guy who really cares about music.
I like Robot Frank's approach to Kenny G's brother:
http://www.robotfrank.com/classic/photoalbum/four/more.html _________________ Fabulous powers were revealed to me the day I held my magic Suhr(d) aloft and said "by the power of great scale!"
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