It's a completely different audience. Where is Rudy Wiedoeft? You guys have short memories. [9] He adopted Kenny G as his stage name because it "had a nice ring to it". many years ago in a group. If you are, I totally agree with you. It's the way record companies automatically put up-and-coming instrumentalists (especially horn players) in the JAZZ category. IMHO that is a true sign of greatness and legacy Bird Lives! Now everyone can be Kenny G! [20] The same year, his song "Havana", from the album The Moment, was remixed by Todd Terry and Tony Moran and released to dance clubs in the U.S. Absolutely false. He gave his life for music, and influenced countless younger sax players. All Rights Reserved. I have four words to add to this list Sam, Butera, Rudy, and Pompilli. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa99q-vq4bI&list=OLAK5uy_k7M-0PcT5vtPSusxNDlUYOkkVOJEwZ5vM&index=10. His 1939 recording of Body And Soul, with an extended solo that improvised on, around and beyond the songs main melody, was a game-changer that opened the door for musicians such as Charlie Parker. The center of the documentary, though, is Kenny G himself. GO ON YOUTUBE HEAR RENE NETTO PLAY LOVER. you guys are all old timers. | Where Are They Now | OWN, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kenny_G&oldid=1142551936, This page was last edited on 3 March 2023, at 01:54. The album is certified Gold in the US. Legendary saxophone player and songwriter Kenny G is releasing his newest song, Emeline, which is featured on his first new album in six years. Kenny G is a great sax player. How about Sonny Criss. Not a very good list; Phil Woods, Serge Chaloff, Don Byas, Lucky Thompson, Wardell Gray, Booker Ervin, Cecil Payne, Steve Lacy, Bill Perkins, Chu Berry, better than at least 13 of your choices. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. [49] Many businesses begin piping the music over their loudspeakers shortly before closing at night. Good additions. He at least was recorded and published, which is more than the Blue Note execs did for Tina Brooks, perhaps the best of the Coltrane challengers with something original to say. Metheny stated that the "controversy" that has surrounded Kenny G "among musicians and serious listeners" is due to the fact that "he sells an enormous amount of records while not being anywhere near a really great player in relation to the standards that have been set on his instrument over the past sixty or seventy years". Clinton hosts governors minus Bush". Besides, there is another purpose that jazz, and all music, serves. While Kenny G surely has great technical ability, calling him the best saxophonist ever is highly debatable. Drawing on gospel, blues cries, and marching-band music, Ayler patented a singular saxophone style that was raw, raucous, eerie, and driven by a primal energy. Putting Gato Barbieri at 50 is a crime EUROPA is the sexiest song ever played on a sax. Kenny Garrett (born October 9, 1960) is an American post-bop jazz musician and composer who gained recognition in his youth as a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and for his time with Miles Davis's band. So all of you are right. When Ben Ratliff, a well known jazz and pop music critic, was asked what he thought of Kenny Gs music, he struggled to give an assessment. His alluring, beautifully lyrical tone, combined with his velvet-smooth, effortless style la Lester Young earned him the nickname The Sound. And, yes, Hank Crawford just above Cannonball Adderley? Joe Henderson was probably THE Hard bop/ Blue note Saxophonist of the 60s, no one really came close to him during that period not even Coltrane. All the instruments play well and feel solid. Less belligerent in his attack than Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, though not as smooth or silky as Stan Getz, Mobleys sonorous, well-rounded tone earned him the title The Middleweight Champion Of The Tenor Saxophone. "[56], In 2021, HBO released a documentary on Kenny G, Listening to Kenny G, directed by Penny Lane. No John Gilmore or Marshall Allen?? This is just the way I hear it. This Ohio free jazz and avant-garde saxophonist (who played the tenor, alto, and soprano varieties) didn't live to see his 35th birthday, but today, almost 50 years after his death, his music and. No matter what you do you cant satisfy everybody. Its the ability to solo and follow: As Duke said, If it sounds good, and feels good, then it is good. Much of it has to do with how our backgrounds and exposures affect what touches us most. Jaws was the best, and there are many here, Pepper, etc, who are no way as good as the list is saying. It's an iconic track from Kenny G,and in fact, some of our members in Sax School are working on that tune right now. Kenny G Greatest Hits Full Album 2021 The Best Songs Of Kenny G Best Saxophone Love Songs 2021https://youtu.be/FwhKhecN-1E His primary instruments are alto and soprano saxophone and flute. Tim combines Irish music with jazz which is quite interesting. Some of the funniest scenes in the documentary come when jazz critics are asked to appraise Kenny Gs music. Cohn gained notoriety playing alongside Sims and Stan Getz in Woody Hermans Second Herd during the late 40s, and, despite being born and raised in Brooklyn, he came to be associated with the West Coast cool sound. Does ProfessorB stand for music Professor Bob Witmer (York University, Toronto, Ontario). In 1997, he earned a place in Guinness World Records for playing the longest note ever played by a human being for 45 minutes and 47 seconds. Id suggest strong in all parameters; no weak link in his chain of genius. He has created his own line of saxophones called "Kenny G Saxophones". Baritone???? Instead, he elected to plow his own distinctive furrow. Kenny G worked in the mid-to-late 1980s with jazz and R&B artists such as George Benson, Patti LaBelle and Aretha Franklin. Sanders music also tapped into the music of other cultures. He spent a long time playing with Cab Calloway and also cut sides with Ella Fitzgerald and Coleman Hawkins before joining Blue Note in 1959, where he recorded some fine albums before his premature death from lung cancer, aged 44. She is a virtuoso electric guitarist that actually plays full symphonies on the guitar. [66], Kenny G built a house in Hunts Point, Washington, in 1996 which he sold in 1999 to Craig McCaw. Stan Getz ahead of Lester Young is just idiotic, ERIC ALEXANDER??!!! God rest his soul, Great Bob the powerful Saxophonist of this last 40 yrs, Ornette Coleman and Booker Ervin two big omissions. 1 - 1 of 1 Posts. Standing at a towering six feet six inches, it was no wonder that this Californian doctors son was dubbed Long Tall Dexter. Towards the end of his life, he made records with more a straight-ahead jazz feel. Joshua Redman? In February 2011, Kenny G appeared in the Super Bowl XLV ad for Audi called "Release the Hounds". If the Jazz Police began launching midnight raids against musicians who offended their sensibilities, Kenny G would be at the top of their list. Youve GOT to be kidding. But maybe we shouldnt underestimate a musician who can wash away the dust of everyday life for many listeners who are worn down by living in an increasingly divided world. Like many of the best jazz saxophonists, Lands brooding tenor sound, with its intense level of expression, was indebted to Coltrane. The song "Theme for Dying Young", written for that movie, was nominated for the Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. We all have our favourites, but I find it sad with the vitriolic comments. He started playing the saxophone at an early age of 13 so he was highly skilled at his craft. (Check out some of the greatest movies lists # 1 The Matrix!). Despite holding the Guinness World Record for best-selling jazz artist, the saxophonist Kenneth Gorelick, who goes by the stage name Kenny G, may be better known as a punchline than as a. Excellent point. Pat Metheny found him "not really an advanced player, even [among pop-oriented sax players of that time]," adding that, according to his opinion, Kenny G had "major rhythmic problems" and his "harmonic and melodic vocabulary was extremely limited, mostly to pentatonic-based and blues-lick derived patterns". One cannot determine whether Pepper is playing or anyone else. As verified by Chris Porter, who was the engineer on the session, 10 different sax players tried to do the solo before Gregory came up with the sound Michael was looking for. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, and No. Kenni Holmen SOPRANO / TENOR SAXOPHONE. Kenny G is a POP instrumentalist just like 1980s platinum-selling saxophonist Najee is an R&B instrumentalist. I have played EUROPA (Carlos Santana-right?) Roscoe Mitchell? 8:33 AM EST, Sun December 5, 2021. I will just say my top three (all in the top 6 here), definitely in this order: 1) Sonny Rollins [6] Also in 2012, Grammy nominations for Seeds from the Underground followed in the Best Jazz Instrumental Album and Best Improvised Jazz Solo categories,[4] and Seeds From The Underground received a NAACP Image Award nomination in the Outstanding Jazz Album category. But a new documentary film by Penny Lane may lead some of Kenny Gs critics to reconsider. Interesting selection though top 4 spot on! "[55], Critic Josef Woodard found Kenny G serving "a noble purpose by offering musicians a paradigm of what not to do," in a JazzTimes poll in which, though, players such as Stan Kenton, Maynard Ferguson, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman were characterized as "over rated. Unique among the best jazz saxophonists to come up in the late 40s and early 50s, Konitz was one of the few altoists who wasnt infected by Charlie Parkers bebop sound. lame-ass, jive, pseudo bluesy out-of-tune, noodling, his virtuoso trumpet playing and singing. Henderson also added Latin elements to his music and, in the 70s, embarked on a freer, more exploratory mode of jazz. He was particularly fond of Eastern music and, as well as playing tenor saxophone, which he played in a hard bop style, he was a fluent flautist and oboist. Though originating in Philadelphia, Getz became the pre-eminent tenor saxophonist of the US West Coast cool school scene of the 50s. I caught him with Shep, then Pharoah Saunders (the loudest of all), and finally Eric Dolphy (in a Chicago Southside bar that had been filled when Stitt and Ammons were there but with Trane and Dolphy (no pianoor bandstandfor McCoy), the audience was small and indifferent to the music which, though tolerable, failed to communicate with the all-black Southside audience. King. I was pleased to see Dexter Gordon and Gerry Mulligan on the list. Gato Barbieri does not belong in this list. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcq_xLi2NGo, Frank Trumbauer, Bud Freeman, Ernie Caceres, Seems the list is top heavy with Modern Jazz. I didnt know who Steve Lacy and Teddy Edwards were ten years ago, and Im still learning. [39] Reaching 37 on the Billboard Hot 100, the song was his first entry on the chart since 2000 and resulted in his becoming one of just five artistsalongside Michael Jackson, Madonna, U2 and "Weird Al" Yankovicto have appeared in the top 40 every decade from the 1980s to the 2010s. He spent several years as a featured soloist in Duke Ellingtons Orchestra, an important group that also nurtured great saxophonists like Kenny Garrett. Kenni was voted "Best Tenor Sax Player" by Twin Cities Reader magazine. Had he stopped right there, Id agree that he was the best of Hawk and Lester as well as an important shaman, maybe an angel or a saint. It cant simply be that millions of people are just stupid and Pat Metheny is the smart one, says Jason King, a musician and scholar at New York University. Since 1985, he has pursued a solo career. Maybe next time expand the list to a hundred. U was glad the jug, Gene Ammons squeaked into the top 25. James Carter, Paquito d Ribera, Ed Calle, Eric Mariental Etc? Gerry Mulligan is top 20 material, surely. Pat Metheny is going to criticize his intonation. It must be. Amusingly, Desmond once likened his saxophone sound to a dry martini. Crawfords expressive, blues-inflected sound exerted a profound influence on a contemporary alto great, David Sanborn. By. Just to think about some of the music mentioned puts me in too good a mood to carp, and certainly makes all the effing and blinding of some of the comments irrelevant. You guess ehich ones are wrong. At the Playboy Jazz Festival in Chicagos Soldiers Field, I witnessed people by the thousands heading for the exits during the Coltrane set. Like a number of the best jazz saxophonists of his era, he was a disciple of Charlie Parker, but nevertheless forged his own style, a soulful amalgam of bop, gospel and blues influences. What is wrong with the world.
