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Kenny G - New Standards (2021) [Hi-Res]

Kenny G - New Standards (2021) [Hi-Res]

BAND/ARTIST: Kenny G

  • Title: New Standards
  • Year Of Release: 2021
  • Label: Concord Records
  • Genre: Jazz
  • Quality: Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) / 24bit-48kHz FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 56:24
  • Total Size: 130 / 313 / 635 MB
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Tracklist:

1. Emeline (3:40)
2. Only You (5:51)
3. Paris By Night (5:30)
4. Rendezvous (6:19)
5. Legacy (3:57)
6. Anthem (4:33)
7. Blue Skies (4:49)
8. Milestones (4:43)
9. Two Of A Kind (5:49)
10. Moonlight (6:01)
11. Waltz In Blue (5:19)

Award-winning saxophonist, Kenny G, is the biggest selling instrumental musician of the modern era and one of the best-selling artists of all time. He's maintained a high level of creative excellence through decades of unprecedented commercial success. After 6 years since releasing 'Brazilian Nights' on Concord Records, Kenny returns with the album 'New Standards'.




Year 2021 | Jazz | Smooth Jazz | FLAC / APE | Mp3 | CD-Rip | HD & Vinyl

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  • billy shears
  •  wrote in 21:26
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PAT METHENY says this about Kenny G:
I first heard him a number of years ago playing as a sideman with Jeff Lorber when they opened a concert for my band. My impression was that he was someone who had spent a fair amount of time listening to the more pop oriented sax players of that time, like grover washington or david sanborn, but was not really an advanced player, even in that style. He had major rhythmic problems and his harmonic and melodic vocabulary was extremely limited, mostly to pentatonic based and blues- lick derived patterns, and he basically exhibited only a rudimentary understanding of how to function as a professional soloist in an ensemble - Lorber was basically playing him off the bandstand in terms of actual music. but he did show a knack for connecting to the basest impulses of the large crowd by deploying his two or three most effective licks (holding long notes and playing fast runs - never mind that there were lots of harmonic clams in them) at the keys moments to elicit a powerful crowd reaction (over and over again). The other main thing I noticed was that he also, as he does to this day, play horribly out of tune - consistently sharp.

and METHENY goes on:

This type of musical necrophilia - the technique of overdubbing on the pre-existing 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.

But when Kenny G decided that it was appropriate for him to defile the music of the man who is probably the greatest jazz musician that has ever lived by spewing his lame-ass, jive, pseudo bluesy, out-of-tune, noodling, wimped out, fucked up playing all over one of the great Louis’s tracks (even one of his lesser ones), he did something that I would not have imagined possible. He, in one move, through his unbelievably pretentious and calloused musical decision to embark on this most cynical of musical paths, shit all over the graves of all the musicians past and present who have risked their lives by going out there on the road for years and years developing their own music inspired by the standards of grace that Louis armstrong brought to every single note he played over an amazing lifetime as a musician. By disrespecting Louis, his legacy and by default, everyone who has ever tried to do something positive with improvised music and what it can be, Kenny G has created a new low point in modern culture - something that we all should be totally embarrassed about - and afraid of. We ignore this, “let it slide”, at our own peril.

the end:

I encourage everyone to boycott Kenny G recordings, concerts and anything he is associated with. If asked about Kenny G, I will diss him and his music with the same passion that is in evidence in this little essay.

Here's the link:
https://www.jazzguitar.com/features/kennyg.html
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  • gemofroe
  •  wrote in 11:53
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thanks a lot
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  • Otis Foster
  •  wrote in 20:31
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I second these comments. It's scandalous that a third rate poseur like KG should be garnering applause from semi-literate music listeners while real musicians need to hustle for every gig and session.
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  • jojo5
  •  wrote in 18:48
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Thank you so much!!!
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