Erik Gaderlund (erikg@macconnect.com)
Thu, 16 Dec 1999 01:42:43 -0800
>
>Now when it gets to jazz. . . Mos Def's line, "Kenny G ain't got no soul,
>John Coltrane is rock n' roll;" now, c'mon! Kenny G is an easy target. I
>fully admit that jazz is, by and large, centered in African-American
>culture, and the vast majority of innovators and principal contributors to
>the tradition were black, Bix Beiderbecke, Brecker Bros., Bill Evans and
>others notwithstanding. But if you're gonna go up against Kenny G, I'm
>sorry, but my people (pasty white people) did produce one or two artists
>of better caliber than that.
>
like I've heard said: 'the only way Kenny G could swing is hanging from a
rope in a strong breeze.' Though I have heard some of his early stuff when
he played tenor and it was pretty good.
erik g
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