Who is the black Kenny G?

>>69446739
Frank Ocean

Kenny G already is the black Kenny G?

As a composer of even eighth note based music, Kenny G SHOULD be compared to Herbie Hancock, Horace Silver or even Grover Washington. Suffice it to say, on all above counts, at this point in his development, he wouldn't fare well.

But, like I said at the top, this relatively benign view was all "until recently".

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.

This type of musical necrophilia - the technique of overdubbing on the preexisting tracks of already dead performers - was weird when Natalie Cole did it with her dad on "Unforgettable" a few years ago, but it was her dad. When Tony Bennett did it with Billie Holiday it was bizarre, but we are talking about two of the greatest singers of the 20th century who were on roughly the same level of artistic accomplishment. When Larry Coryell presumed to overdub himself on top of a Wes Montgomery track, I lost a lot of the respect that I ever had for him - and I have to seriously question the fact that I did have respect for someone who could turn out to have such unbelievably bad taste and be that disrespectful to one of my personal heroes.

Warren G

>>69446739
Maurice Wilson

Kamasi

G-Kenny

would neil diamond be the white coaltrain?

Death Grips

Who is the white Kenny G?

>>69446784
desu yes

Objectively speaking it'd just be Coltraine wouldn't it?

>>69446802
see i recognize that pasta but i don't see at all how that would be arrogant or presumptuous. a cash grab to release maybe, since i know musicians do that all the time, you know, play along to their favorite tracks but eh, it seems like he's jumping hoops and reaching for a justification because he didn't like him in the first place