{"id":79,"date":"2005-03-10T23:48:56","date_gmt":"2005-03-11T07:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/pat-metheny-smacks-down-kenny-g\/"},"modified":"2005-03-10T23:48:56","modified_gmt":"2005-03-11T07:48:56","slug":"pat-metheny-smacks-down-kenny-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/pat-metheny-smacks-down-kenny-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Metheny smacks down Kenny G"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like a lot of people, I don&#8217;t take much notice of someone like Kenny G. His stuff is just so bland and he&#8217;s such an easy target, it hardly seems worth bothering with him. <\/p>\n<p>Well, apparently, he covered Louis Armstrong&#8217;s &#8220;What a Wonderful World&#8221; and used at least the original vocal track in his version of it on a recent album. This caused Pat Metheny to notice him <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzoasis.com\/methenyonkennyg.htm\">and not in a good way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a big Pat Metheny fan either. I&#8217;m of the opinion that not much decent has come out of jazz since <u>Bitches Brew<\/u>, but it&#8217;s always funny to see one celebrity take another one down a notch. Not that it&#8217;ll bother Mr. G one bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a lot of people, I don&#8217;t take much notice of someone like Kenny G. His stuff is just so bland and he&#8217;s such an easy target, it hardly seems worth bothering with him. Well, apparently, he covered Louis Armstrong&#8217;s &#8220;What a Wonderful World&#8221; and used at least the original vocal track in his version <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/pat-metheny-smacks-down-kenny-g\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-1h","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}