This town loves Kenny G . . .

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This town loves Kenny G . . .

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. . . 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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hup_d_dup wrote:. . . and they fabricate over 100,000 saxophones per year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/worl ... d=49411706" target="_blank" target="_blank

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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.
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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??

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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.
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