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Kenny G has sold more than 75 million records

SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_G


Kenny G is the biggest-selling instrumental musician of the modern era and one of the best-selling artists of all time, with global sales totaling more than 75 million records.

how much more tasteful than this can a musician get?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgI1FX00Igw

Pat Metheny - 45 recording...20 million. lol. Who's laughing now?

thememphizmonkz wrote:Pat Betheny - 45 recording...20 million. lol. Who's laughing now?

Shows just how little NotReady knows about music. It's METHENY, fool!

But anyone who likes Kenny G's elevator music probably goes to Yanni shows, too!

did this seriously just happen?

Mike Birch - 5 albums....10 sold. 5 returned. lol. Did I spell that right?

Yanni - 40 platinum and gold albums...25 million sold...globally. Guess I don't need to go to his shows, huh. lol.

"sappy instrumental music" - perfect description. I've seen clips of Yanni on stage with old ladies in the audience throwing their grannie bloomers at him. I bet NotReady gets off on that.

And NotReady still can't get it right. 4 albums, and I've sold plenty of them (no returns) - compared to him, making no REAL music, having nothing but bad phone recordings of him and his lonely casio.

there are always going to be people who confuse POPULARITY with QUALITY.

what does it prove that Kenny G, Taylor Swift, so called "Reality TV", or rap music is POPULAR????

only that there is, and will always be a market for mindless dumbed down product.

there will always be a bigger market for "Reality TV" than for Masterpiece Theatre. more people will consume corndogs than they will filet mignon, and more people will drink Miller Light than will drink a fine single malt scotch.

popularity does not equal quality. and Kenny G's dumbed down, vapid, and shallow elevator music for the masses proves exactly that.

I wonder if Kenny G would agree with you p-guy?

i suspect there's a good chance he would. i doubt he's stupid. he identified that there's a market for his dumbed down product and made a ton of money exploiting that. so, if nothing else he's a savvy businessman who knows how to make a buck.

i also doubt that he has any delusions of his music being art or even "jazz". that link you posted is a perfect example. a static straight eight note vamp over repetitious drum machine and keyboard bass? that's instrumental pop music and has no resemblance to "jazz".

amazing how many people see a saxophonist playing instrumental music and they assume it's "jazz". nah. not so.

I don't know, both artist's music serves a purpose.. if I need to relax, Kenny G music has a way of melting the stress and mental strain away instantaneously.. if I am dozing off and need a quick pick-me-up Pat Metheny music will tend to perk me up more so than Kenny G.. both serve a purpose and we do not know if Kenny is just holding back to embrace the tastes of his fans.. he deliberately plays more with a groove and smoother to satisfy his fans.. it's not that he could be technically more advanced, he chooses not to..

Dayne Nobody IV wrote:it's not that he could be technically more advanced, he chooses not to..

i'm guessing you meant to say:

"it's not that he couldN'T be technically more advanced, he chooses not to"

that begs the question...how do you know that he could be?

i first heard/saw Kenny Gorelick a few times yrs ago when he was still playing w The Jeff Lorber Fusion.

JL later got more commercial and mainstream, and he was doing some of that more "commercial" music stuff back then, but they also played some more challenging stuff w interesting changes and feels.... "real jazz" and brazilian stuff.

....and KG could not come close to hanging w JL or even the bass player in terms of navigating the changes....all he could do was play his dead simple pentatonic licks and his cliched circular breathing (held notes).
and as Metheny noted...his intonation was terrible.

as for mood music...yeah, i get that. people used to anesthetize themselves w the dumbed down sounds of Manotovani and The 1000 Strings....now they do it w Yanni, Zamfir, and KG. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz