Why is Kenny G so hated?

Ned Flanders singing Be-Bop would be hilarious.
It would also be cool to hear a Flanders beatnik poem to some jazz, seeing how he has crazy, lazy beatnik parents.

This probably deserves its own thread (maybe you should start one). Jazz is a huge field, with many performers and styles. I could recommend some things, but I don’t know whether you would like them.

Fortunately, the internet makes it easy to explore musicians, genres and eras. One way to start would be to listen to the big names on Youtube. You could start with:

Duke Ellington

Thelonious Monk

Charlie Parker

Miles Davis

John Coltrane

Louis Armstrong (especially the early stuff - his Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings)

Django Reinhardt

Ella Fitzgerald (not everything she did was jazzy - try her scat singing)

Sonny Rollins

McCoy Tyner

Billie Holiday

Charles Mingus

Art Tatum

Oscar Peterson

Benny Goodman

And if you want to hear how good soprano sax can be, try listening to Sidney Bechet.

BTW, this list is by no means comprehensive. I’m leaving out a lot.

Bravo! I have no opinion on Kenny G - to me, all jazz sounds like passionless tootling, even the “serious” jazz musicians I hear reviewed on Fresh Air; I’m just not a fan - but I do enjoy a well-crafted insult. Well played, Chefguy, well played indeed.

Jazz, like a hot bath, is something you need to ease into. There is a lot of jazz that I don’t like, even after all these years.

I had a Kenny G CD back when he was popular. I remember thinking I only needed the one, because I couldn’t tell the songs apart. I knew, intellectually, that they each had different melodic lines, probably different keys and time signatures, even different moods. But, I couldn’t ever recall the melody of a particular song, let alone hum or whistle it.

The man is pissing on Jazz.
He just plain turns people off from a terrific kind of music.

Appropriate term to be used in the post which revived a zombie thread. :smiley:

They have a soft spot for him.

Maybe he’s hoping to get some sympathy tail after they hear him play.

What? People hate Yanni? But I love Yanni! Ok, not love, but I like that Yanni Live at the Acropolis CD and almost all the tracks on it