I always felt a little sorry for Kenny. I remember him from Jeff Lorber Fusion group that my brother used to play at home. He could blow. Just got caught up trying to make a living and became the poster child for smooth jazz. I'm sure he didn't resist when he saw the piles of money. Who wouldn't? For an instrumentalist (I won't call him "jazz") to have those kinds of record sales without touring in that late decade of electro-pop, hair metal and hip hop was unheard of.

The biggest transgression was the studio duet with the late Louis Armstrong and then association with Michael Bolton. Total travesty.

And yeah, his music sucks.

Any musician with integrity and there are lots. You do not become a jazz musician to make money.

I hear more than enough Kenny G at the grocery store.
No need to buy a CD.

Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen 4 lyfe

I actually have a Christmas album by him that I love listening to every year. And just Bought a old new one today at Goodwill.. sometimes its just nice to listen to, its easy on the ears.

please everybody stop bumping this thread. the jazz section suffers enough without having this cunt be its poster girl.

Agreed. Opps I bumped it again :crazy:

My enduring memory of Mr. G was from Celebrity Death Match when Flea stuck his sax up his ass and farted out a melody.

Those were the days. Good old SNL

all I can remember is his music on dying young's soundtrack

Haa Haa! With such a title, this thread will never die out! And I don't think he's goona get any supporters either :p:.

Kenny G killed jazz every time I hear him it takes all my self control to not vomit.

What's wrong with ol' Kenny?

Everything.

Fun fact though: He started off playing sax in Barry White's band.

I wouldn't have a clue who the fucker is if it weren't for South Park.

I wonder if that's due to your age or where you're from because there was definitely a time when I felt like I couldn't escape him. Just like Michael frigging Bolton.

Who? :D

I think it's age and me not being american, possibly.

I hope you're joking.

Actually, for your sake, I hope you aren't. :laughing:

Well if the Kenny G plague was mostly confined to the US that definitely a good thing for the rest of humanity.

I know the name but i couldn't possibly name a tune.

I hadn't heard of Kenny G before I joined this forum.

This video actually just made me laugh out loud:

Youtube's international policy has saved me this time round, quite thankful for that because i think i know that song...

Damn. Well you'll just have to take my word for it that the video is hilarious. Just image Mr. Bolton with his receding hairline and mullet, shirt unbuttoned down to his bellybutton, horses running, flames, sweeping vistas of the Grand Canyon, you get the idea.

I think the US needs to make an apology to the rest of the world for letting Kenny G make music

You mean a Meatloaf video?

Like Meatloaf minus the irony.

It's a shame Meatloaf's music is so awful because the guy himself is really entertaining.

I thought I had forgot about him, thanks.

He's a human bagpipe.

Tis' true. Kenny G is nothing more than Michael Bolton with a soprano sax stuck in his throat.

Yeah I remember him. While I haven't listened to his music in quite a while (years), I remember that I used to like it.

Since you brought it up. His stuff was always played on "smoove jazz" radio.

I remember Flea sticking his alto sax up his ass then farting into it in Celebrity Death Match.

Very true. Just horrible.

His music is obviously cack, but his existence is justified by inspiring Pat Metheny's incredible rant about him and his rape of Louis Armstrong. I can't post links yet but type Pat Metheny Kenny G into google and it's the first result.

My favourite extracts:

"Not long ago, Kenny G put out a recording where he overdubbed himself on top of a 30+ year old Louis Armstrong record, the track "What a Wonderful World". With this single move, Kenny G became one of the few people on earth I can say that I really can't use at all - as a man, for his incredible arrogance to even consider such a thing, and as a musician, for presuming to share the stage with the single most important figure in our music."

"But when Kenny G decided that it was appropriate for him to defile the music of the man who is probably the greatest jazz musician that has ever lived by spewing his lame-ass, jive, pseudo bluesy, out-of-tune, noodling, wimped out, ****ed up playing all over one of the great Louis's tracks (even one of his lesser ones), he did something that I would not have imagined possible. He, in one move, through his unbelievably pretentious and calloused musical decision to embark on this most cynical of musical paths, **** all over the graves of all the musicians past and present who have risked their lives by going out there on the road for years and years developing their own music inspired by the standards of grace that Louis Armstrong brought to every single note he played over an amazing lifetime as a musician. By disrespecting Louis, his legacy and by default, everyone who has ever tried to do something positive with improvised music and what it can be, Kenny G has created a new low point in modern culture - something that we all should be totally embarrassed about - and afraid of. We ignore this, "let it slide", at our own peril"

"Since that record came out - in protest, as insignificant as it may be, I encourage everyone to boycott Kenny G recordings, concerts and anything he is associated with. If asked about Kenny G, I will diss him and his music with the same passion that is in evidence in this little essay."

"There ARE some things that are sacred - and amongst any musician that has ever attempted to address jazz at even the most basic of levels, Louis Armstrong and his music is hallowed ground. To ignore this trespass is to agree that NOTHING any musician has attempted to do with their life in music has any intrinsic value - and I refuse to do that."

He didn't do it in a single breath.....a body couldn't last that long without oxygen.

Also as a potentially interesting side note, somebody finally got around to breaking that pointless record.