{"id":8925,"date":"2010-05-25T02:05:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T02:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/25\/pat-metheny-on-kenny-g\/"},"modified":"2010-05-25T02:05:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T02:05:55","slug":"pat-metheny-on-kenny-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/25\/pat-metheny-on-kenny-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Metheny on Kenny G"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.jazzoasis.com\/methenyonkennyg.htm'>Pat Metheny on Kenny G<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>Pat Metheny really hates Kenny G.\u00a0 15 paragraphs of &ldquo;raw character  destruction&rdquo; doesn&rsquo;t begin to describe it.\u00a0 There are many quotes I could have cited, but here is a particularly good passage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&hellip;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 [Armstrong&rsquo;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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Metheny on Kenny G Pat Metheny really hates Kenny G.\u00a0 15 paragraphs of &ldquo;raw character destruction&rdquo; doesn&rsquo;t begin to describe it.\u00a0 There are many quotes I could have cited, but here is a particularly good passage: &hellip;when Kenny G decided that it was appropriate for him to defile the music of the man who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/25\/pat-metheny-on-kenny-g\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pat Metheny on Kenny G&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}