• Re: Here's what I don't get about Kenny G.

    From J D Chance@jdchancetrades@gmail.com to rec.music.bluenote on Tue Feb 13 04:57:06 2024
    From Newsgroup: rec.music.bluenote

    On Thursday, November 7, 2002 at 12:34:28rC>AM UTC-5, Someone wrote:
    You might have to go back to the recordings of The Jeff Lorber Fusion to
    find Kenny playing in a style other than the one frequently derided in rmb. "JimValiant" <jimva...@aol.com> wrote in message news:20021106185409...@mb-cm.aol.com...
    Everybody's been handy with some wacky comedy, but no one has really
    answered
    the question, and I'd really like to know: Is Kenny G. known to be a
    competent
    jazz player when he wants, and just chooses not to? Or can he not really
    play
    jazz? Also, what is thought of Grover Washington, Jr.'s ability to play
    real
    jazz? Is he respected?
    met G caddying for him at a club in LA one day and mentioned I liked his stuff he did with Jeff Lorber - and then he said he never recorded anything with Lorber - insisting on it with his friend who was there with him as I referenced some Lorber albums I thought I saw G's name on - and for the rest of the day he joked around about that yet was also serious about it - repeating it many times during the walk that he never recorded with Lorber - yet I knew that he did and still have no idea why he was denying it and was so adamant about it
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