Hardbopjazz Posted June 28, 2010 Report Posted June 28, 2010 (edited) I needed some laughter today. Contest: CD Giveaway - Kenny G, "Heart and Soul" Before you turn your nose up at Kenny G, just consider the coolness factor of playing with Weezer on an AOL Music Sessions performance promoting the band's recent Raditude album. aritcle I guess 8 am sharp is a key most musicians don't play in. And to compare his practicing to Sonny Rollins. "Kenny G approaches his saxophone playing with the same dedication and resolve as someone like Sonny Rollins, though the end result musically couldn’t be farther apart." The end result is Kenny G: Practice What You Play The iconic smooth jazz saxophonist talks about his music and his golf in a candid interview with JT’s editor in chief Kenny G is practicing. He was supposed to call at 8 am sharp from his home in Southern California, but now it’s almost two hours later and there’s no word. A followup e-mail from his worried publicist sets things in motion and he calls shortly thereafter, apologetic, explaining that he starts practicing early in the morning every day and today he started and got so wrapped up in his exercises that he forgot all about the interview. He then jokes that this is one excuse a jazz magazine can hardly fault. “Especially if I’m doing a thing for JazzTimes, they can’t be too unhappy that I’m practicing, right?” article Edited June 28, 2010 by Hardbopjazz Quote
JSngry Posted June 28, 2010 Report Posted June 28, 2010 He thinks that an interviewer kept waiting for 2+ hours gives a flying fuck that he was practicing? Hell, he thinks that a "jazz magazine" gives a double flying fuck about anybody practicing other than it gives them somebody at whom to target advertisements? Quote
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