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I dont really like his music but it is what gave me a general idea of instrumental music when i was growing up and didnt know. His music today is bland and watered down. I really hated his standards cd because you just cant play standards like that...


Now when Kenneth Gorlick was a young highschool studen he had killer chops you should hear some of the stuff he did in highschool. I know this because he actually went to the highschool i graduated from. The recording i heard of him back then was nothing like he plays now. So before he sold out he had the jazz feel and sound down! Alot of the guys he played with in the early years think he's a sellout.

That world record he made of holding the longest note was broken a week later actually.

Now remember people enjoy his music and many a student has learned sax because of him so dont knock the influence he has in the music world. Even though it's a wacked influence, i'm not knocking any of you fans in this guild either.

He's a strange man, and pretty creepy. But he still had a big impact that you should give him credit for.

True... he has had a big impact on "modern/smooth jazz", but i also think he and other musicians of his style are who give younger people a bad idea of what jazz really is. Too many people now think that "jazz" is the flat emotionless bland music that KG now plays.

I tell people that I was a Music major with a Sax concentration and the first thing i hear is "OH, you must LOVE Kenny G!!!" AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!

Jazz is exciting. Jazz is full of emotion and dynamics. Jazz isn't always in tune or have a perfect vibrato. Kenny G=easy listening/adult contemporary jazz. John Coltrane=I'm playing from my heart and soul cause this is what i'm really feelin' jazz.

This isn't to knock KG's technical abilities. He is without a doubt a very gifted horn player. Nor is it to knock his fans... everyone has their own tastes. I'm just expressing my taste (or distaste as it may be) for Kenny's music.

You want good "modern jazz" saxophone? Try Branford Marsalis.

Still i'm sick of hearing "Oh you're a sax player like Kenny G?"

Yes i'm a sax player but no i'm not a sax player like Kenny G...

Unfortunately i didnt have that kind of musical background i had to discover it all by myself.

yeah....Thankfully, no one buys me CD's. In my case, musicality runs in the family. And if it skipped someone, they'll go for the gift certificate option.

If he could actually put edge on his music he should, there is something odd about having a sound that smooth, it always gives me a funny(as in bad) taste in my mouth when I hear that soprano sax like sound, and as a bassists I like to play edgy blues and big band jazz