[Dixielandjazz] A final note on the G Man

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

I am sorry Hal but I have to respectfully ( of your personal  Opinion ) 
  but totally disagree with you as I have seen it in action, especially 
when he plays his version of WWW  which many of the  Traditional folks 
on this list also  seem to HATE.   I playing just that one song to 
fifty or sixty thousand younger audience members a concert is not doing 
anything to spread Traditional Jazz then Louis Armstrong is a myth and 
never existed anyway. :))

And who says Herb Alpert never had any contributions to spreading some 
Traditional Jazz to new audiences?  did you attend his every 
performance?  He was a favorite Trumpet player and band leader of mine 
for a few years and certainly had an influence on me a young trumpet 
player at the time who wanted very much to play like him and Ray 
Anthony.   Now don't shoot me because I was young and my only previous 
exposure at that time to trumpet players was Rafael Mendez and Maynard 
Furgerson, (spell)  once each,  I had not even been hipped to Louis 
Armstrong yet.  circa 1961.   Also who knows what else Herb might have 
played had he not formed his own record label to play His Kind of 
Music.  Maybe he was a starving Dixieland Trumpet player prior to that 
trying to get a major record deal to record music that was fading out 
of fashion rapidly at that time.

Good popular musicians of any genre certainly spread some influence 
about the music they play n o matter what the genre to new audiences, 
provided they play to new audiences, which is the key factor in 
becoming a financially successful artists and sustaining a viable 
career in the music business.

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins



-----Original Message-----
From: hvickery at svs.com
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 2:16 PM
Subject: RE: [Dixielandjazz] A final note on the G Man

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

Hal Vickery

-----Original Message-----
From: dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com
[mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] On Behalf Of
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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