No Sax Appeal

In response to Don Heckman’s profile of saxophonist Kenny Gorelick (a.k.a. Kenny G), Sept. 26:

To write about Kenny G under a jazz heading, and to speak of him favorably in the same paragraph as Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and Stan Getz, has got to be a secular sacrilege.

Kenny doesn’t care, Dave Koz doesn’t care, and apparently Don Heckman doesn’t care about anything but sales, but I care, and I have thought that The Times cared about music.

Your separation of pop music and jazz has worked well, and has permitted you to write about both without condescension. If you plan to write often about Kenny G, whose music the current Rolling Stone Album Guide describes accurately as “ ‘fuzak’--that is, a combination of fusion and Muzak, which at its worst manages to be more soporific than either individually,” I suggest that you create a new category.

Jazz works under a big tent but not that big.

OWEN GILLICK, Twentynine Palms

Can it now be said that Kenny G is the Michael Bolton of “jazz”?

PATRICK CERVANTES, Los Angeles

Thanks for the article on Kenny G. Now I know why the Gorelick sisters eat at Kenny’s. I mean Denny’s.

MIKE TOWNSEND, Irvine