{"id":592,"date":"2005-09-10T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-10T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2005\/09\/what-is-kenny-g.html"},"modified":"2005-09-10T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-10T21:28:00","slug":"what-is-kenny-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2005\/09\/what-is-kenny-g.html","title":{"rendered":"What is Kenny G missing?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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"Kenny G is an acoustic musician who plays the soprano saxophone, the instrument identified with Sidney Bechet and John Coltrane, two of the icons of jazz history." (Jazz 101, John Szwed, p21)<\/p>\n

I don’t think that Kenny G is a jazz musician for many of the reasons cited by all of you in the previous post. One critic adds this thought to our discussion, "Though he claims not to be a jazz musician, Kenny G has always been regarded with contempt by jazz aficionados for his supposedly pedestrian, soulless playing<\/em><\/strong>." (Wikipedia)<\/p>\n

"Soulless."<\/em><\/strong> I don’t know whether or not Mr. G is missing soul, I don’t know him, but I do know that many churches are. Have you ever experienced a soulless church? Preacher? Worship leader? Have you ever heard someone saying all the right things about God and yet it was missing an intangable…it was missing soul. How do we keep the soul in our conversations about God? Where does soul come from?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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