[Dixielandjazz] A final note on the G Man

[Hal Vickery]

Kenny G has done no more to spread traditional jazz music to new audiences
than Herb Alpert did.

Hal Vickery

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From: dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com
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tcashwigg at aol.com
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 2:21 PM
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] A final note on the G Man

Hi folks:

Like him and or his music or not,  Kenny G  will remain an important 
part of history in American Jazz, and I know a lot more clones playing  
his style and even songs that are making a lot more money and 
supporting their families and lifestyles than I do Dixieland players.

And his long bantered atrocity of playing a duet electronically with 
"King Louis" and selling another  few million records or so, and 
expanding Traditional Jazz music to new audiences is not to be spoofed 
no matter how much you personally hate him or his  music,  this is a 
Business and if more musicians treated it like one we would all be 
working more and more and making  more money and being a lot happier 
about it rather than sitting back and throwing darts at the last issue 
of Jazz Magazine with Kenny's Picture on the cover.

He made it and is successful beyond any of our wildest dreams, so it is 
easy to be jealous and just talk trash about him while as I have said 
before he laughs all the way to the BANK'S.  Now don't piss him off he 
might even open up a chain of Dixieland Jazz Clubs one day and hire 
some of you complainers.

Some of ya'll said the same things many years ago about other 
commercially acceptable musicians when they got hit recordings and you 
did not and maybe did not even get recorded.

That is the Reality of the business and it applies to Jazz as well as 
POP and any other genre of music.

The Money talks and the B.S. Walks !  always has and always will,  
without the money nothing happens that anybody in any significant 
numbers ever hears about.

just my .02 cents worth


Now let he on this fine list that would not welcome Kenny G as a 
special guest to play on his homemade Cd and allow you to use his name, 
throw the first Boulder at him. :))

He too however subscribes to the old adage "  Any publicity is good 
publicity so long as they spell your name correctly, and keep talking 
about you. :))

Cheers,


Old Know it all foolishness   Tom Wiggins


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