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This town loves Kenny G . . .
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 2:49 pm
by hup_d_dup
. . . and they fabricate over 100,000 saxophones per year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/worl ... d=49411706" target="_blank
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Re: This town loves Kenny G . . .
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 4:13 pm
by The Big Ben
Interesting article. I had no idea China made as many saxophones as the article says they do.
I don't listen to Kenny G's music but I don't dislike it. I like a little more heat in my music. Or, as Ms. Tina Turner says: "We never, ever play nuthin' nice and easy. We always play it nice and rough."
He's the same age as I am and I know a couple of guys who graduated from HS with him. During HS and college, Kenny Gorlick was a sax man in the Seattle funk band, "Cold, Bold and Together". A club I was in hired them two or three times to play at our drunken brawls, ur, 'evening dances". They were good. One skinny little white guy in a band with 9 black guys. But, he was funky.
Re: This town loves Kenny G . . .
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 6:52 pm
by Three Valves
Neat article.
How did the NYT manage not to mention you know what or you know who in an article about a Chinese village that loves the sax??
Re: This town loves Kenny G . . .
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 11:41 pm
by swillafew
Pat Methany has famously ripped on Kenny. I also read Downbeat magazine years ago where Joe Pass ripped on Pat in the same way, for similar reasons.