Re: Disgracing Bird's Legacy

Someone thankfully mentioned Metheny's comments on overdubbing.  He is
really eloquent on this subject.  Following are his words in an
article he wrote about Kenny G:

This type of musical necrophilia - the technique of overdubbing on the
preexisting 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. When Larry Coryell presumed to overdub himself on top
of a Wes Montgomery track, I lost a lot of the respect that I ever had
for him - and I have to seriously question the fact that I did have
respect for someone who could turn out to have have such unbelievably
bad taste and be that disrespectful to one of my personal heroes.

Here is the link to the full Metheny article:

http://www.music3.com/kennyg_and_jazz.htm

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zoot) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jurupari) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > >does "this is john camron camron down town mars"  ring a bell?
> > >
> > 
> > yep.  Nothing new under the sun.
> > 
> > >> I can't recall any other era of music actually taking
> > >> recordings of the music of their predecesssors, and
> > >> using them in a finished product they then call their own.
> > 
> > Well, I once made a guitar pick out of a  Pat Boone record but that probably
> > doesn't count.
> > 
> > Clif
> 
>   i just finished a project that mixes country with rap.    i call it 
>  crap. hay,i'm here all week
> now i'm so ahead of my time that i'm doing a remix project using kenny
> g [not sure of the spelling] samples