Artist: Kenny G
Genre(s):
Jazz: Crossover Jazz
Instrumental
Jazz
Discography:
At Last... The Duets Album
Year: 2004
Tracks: 13
Wishes - A Holiday Album
Year: 2002
Tracks: 10
Paradise
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Faith: A Holiday Album
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Greatest Hits
Year: 1997
Tracks: 16
The Moment
Year: 1996
Tracks: 12
Miracles, The Holiday Album
Year: 1994
Tracks: 11
Breathless
Year: 1992
Tracks: 15
Silhouette
Year: 1988
Tracks: 10
Duotones
Year: 1986
Tracks: 10
Gravity
Year: 1985
Tracks: 9
G Force
Year: 1983
Tracks: 8
Kenny G
Year: 1982
Tracks: 9
Montage
Year:
Tracks: 14
Live
Year:
Tracks: 11
Kenny G has long been the musician many jazz listeners beloved to hatred. A phenomenally successful player whose recordings make the pop charts, Kenny G's sound has been a staple on adult contemporary and smooth malarkey radio stations of the Cross since the mid-'80s, making him a family name. Kenny G is a fine participant with an attractive sound (influenced a bit by Grover Washington, Jr.) world Health Organization frequently caresses melodies, putting a lot of emotion into his solos. Because he does not extemporize often (sticking for the most part to predictable melody statements), his euphony for the most part falls outside of nothingness. However, because he is listed at the top of "present-day jazz" charts and is identified with malarkey in the minds of the mass world, he is classified as jazz.
Kenny Gorelick started playacting professionally with Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra in 1976. He recorded with Cold, Bold & Together (a Seattle-based funk grouping) and freelanced topically. After graduating from the University of Washington, Kenny G worked with Jeff Lorber Fusion, making two albums with the chemical group. Soon he was signed to Arista, recording his debut as a leader in 1982. His fourth album, Duotones (which included the very popular "Songster"), made him into a star. Soon he was in demand for guest appearances on recordings of such notable singers as Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, and Natalie Cole. Kenny G's have records have sold remarkably substantially, specially Breathless, which has easy topped eight-spot 1000000 copies in the U.S.; his total album sales top 30 1000000 copies. 1994's holiday album Miracles and 1996's Minute continued the momentum of his massive commercial success. He also recorded his possess version of the Celine Dion/Titanic smash "My Heart Will Go On" in 1998, just the next year he released Classics in the Key of G, a accumulation of idle words standards like "'Round Midnight" and "Organic structure & Soul," mayhap to repossess some jazz believability.
Faith: A Holiday Album was released that same year, followed up by a limited edition re-release of the 1997 Superlative Hits disc. 2002 launch Kenny G dipping into tropical dominion with Paradise, which featured invitee appearances by Brian McKnight and Chanté Moore. This was followed by a music video collecting, some other holiday record album, entitled Wishes, and, in 2003, a second greatest-hits solicitation, Ultimate Kenny G. Perhaps in a press to agitate up his discography a bit, in 2004 Kenny G released At Last...The Duets Album, which featured "duets" with LeAnn Rimes and Chaka Khan. Two days afterward, fluid jazz's martin Luther King of the treble adolphe Sax returned to a strictly instrumental approach path on the bodacious, big-band-inspired albums Holiday Collection and I'm in the Mood for Love. 2006 was also the year the creative person was dubbed the c. H. Best linksman in euphony by Golf Digest, beating out Vince Gill for the number unitary spot.
