[Dixielandjazz] A final note on the G Man

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

H a Ha Ha   ROTFLOL  PAUL:

Go for it but don't wait till he is dead, because by that time his 
music may have faded so far out of mainstream that your hit will be a 
turkey in the sales bins. :))


I know some heavy weight lawyers that would be happy to defend your 
interest for a substantial cut of the royalties although they would 
take all expenses and fees off the top before you got any, and they 
would probably be splitting them with Kenny's lawyers as well thus 
milking off any profits that might be generated anyway.

I actually know some guys who do that kind of thing and then go about 
saying that they recorded with major stars both alive and dead,  and 
try to sell themselves as International Stars to the unsuspecting and 
untrained ear that might not hear the obvious overdub and bad mixing of 
the home made CDs they send out and Sell to anybody they can get to buy 
one.

The business is full of nut cases, good ones and bad ones :))  And yes 
a lot of them are in the top level of marketing music as well, and do 
indeed try to pass of lots of music as Jazz and other genres 
inappropriately to sell it.

And if all players with real artistic merit were successful financially 
we would not have Starving artists to feel sorry for, and perhaps 
destroy the real true Artistry that presumably come only from them :))  
 At least the musical ones. :))

There is good art and bad art, but it is our own personal 
interpretations of which is which, good to some is atrocious to others 
and vice versa.   Different strokes for different folks.   If we all 
liked exactly the same things  and music included, in life it would be 
very boring.


Cheers,

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: paul.edgerton at eds.com
To: tcashwigg at aol.com; dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:46 AM
Subject: RE: [Dixielandjazz] A final note on the G Man

   Tom Wiggins wrote:

> 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. :))


Actually, I was thinking of producing an unauthorized duet album
featuring me playing over Mr. Gorelick's music.  But gosh darn it, it
just doesn't seem right while he's still alive.  Somebody please call me
the minute he's gone, because I'm sure I've got a blockbuster waiting
for just the right moment.

Not that I'm knocking G's success.  Hell, he makes more money from his

saxophone each week than I'm likely to bring in over the next decade.
But as I have stated before on this very forum, commercial or popular
success are not prima facie evidence of artistic merit.  Permit me to
keep my own counsel on this.

And for the record, it's bad enough when people who don't call
themselves jazz musicians get tossed into the same section at Borders,
but what *really* bugs me is the incredible amount of self-indulgent

anti-jazz (which annihilates real jazz on contact) being foisted on the
public by people who should know better.  It's no big mystery why so
many people don't like jazz: they hardly ever hear the *good* stuff!

-- Paul Edgerton


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