>If you're right about Kenny G being able to play at a Coltrane-esque level Well, it appears my assumption was false! I finally read The Pat Metheny article y

>If you're right about Kenny G being able to play at a Coltrane-esque level Well, it appears my assumption was false! I finally read The Pat Metheny article you posted, and he's pretty clear that Kenny G is not on the level of the greats: > 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 > The other main thing I noticed was that he also, as he does to this day, played horribly out of tune - consistently sharp. > There must be hundreds, if not thousands of sax players around the world who are simply better improvising musicians than Kenny G on his chosen instruments. It would really surprise me if even he disagreed with that statement. Mind you, he is comparing Kenny G (unfavorably) to the best jazz sax players (because he also argues that it is jazz, despite what the naysayers may say).