He is a Grammy winning American saxophonist.
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This artist appears in 111 charts and has received 5 comments and 10 ratings from site members. The top rated tracks by Kenny G are How Could An Angel Break My Heart, You Send Me and Songbird. His birth name was Kenneth Bruce Gorelick. The top ranked albums by Kenny G are Breathless, Silhouette and Duotones. Kenny Gs main instrument is the soprano saxophone, but he also on occasion plays alto and tenor saxophone. His fourth album, Duotones, brought him breakthrough success in 1986. (At times the mere presence of a saxophone was the genre’s only plausible jazz ingredient the band dynamics and rhythmic codes of jazz were seldom present.) No matter how befuddling it might’ve been for hardcore jazz aficionados to fathom, Kenny G's formula made him a Pied Piper for the phenomenon-and one of the best-selling instrumental artists of all time. Kenny G was born on in Seattle, Washington, U.S. Kenneth Bruce Gorelick (born Jin Seattle, WA), better known by his stage name Kenny G, is a Grammy winning American saxophonist.
KENNY G ALBUM ARCHIVE
This 1997 hits package covers the first stage of the Seattle-born artist's dominance, leading off with the blockbuster ballad singles “Songbird” and “Silhouette” and breezing through the Latin-lite of “Havana” and the sleek nighttime funk of “Baby G.” Vocal guest spots from Babyface, Toni Braxton, Peabo Bryson, Michael Bolton, and even Frank Sinatra on “One for My Baby” (lifted from Sinatra’s 1993 Duets album) make it clear how Kenny G sat at the juncture of adult pop and light R&B, a sound that came to be called smooth jazz. Kenny G Addeddate 02:24:48 Identifier KennyG201711 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t02z7k81t Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.3. There’s a long historical tension between easy listening and the imperatives of jazz authenticity, and no one has come to inhabit that division quite like Kenneth Gorelick-the soprano sax melodist to the masses better known as Kenny G.