![]() While an engineered “duet” with the late Louis Armstrong on “What a Wonderful World” took a lot of heat-enlisting jazz history’s greatest heavyweight in a bid to support the leading light of the oft sneered-at smooth-jazz genre-it’s unlikely that the highbrow jazz world’s umbrage has done much to hurt the album’s popularity. ![]() Kenny G remains a sweet, melodic instrumentalist, who works entirely in lush, slick adult contemporary pop settings. They were well received by the music lovers and Kenny G’s music was very called-for: both albums were certified Platinum. The second studio work G-Force was issued in 1983 and it was followed by Gravity (1985). There’s also Christmas and New Year’s fare sprinkled in, and more cameos from George Benson, Peabo Bryson, and Earth, Wind & Fire. Although The Moment followed four years after Kenny Gs blockbuster Breathless, the saxophonist didnt change his approach at all during his time off. The same year his debut album titled Kenny G (1982) was released. The soprano sax showman’s earliest ballad breakthroughs “Songbird” and “Silhouette”, his instrumental rendition of “My Heart Will Go On”, the mechanised funk of “Against Doctor’s Orders”, the cover of Average White Band's “Picking Up the Pieces” with David Sanborn and his catchy Chaka Khan version of Christina Aguilera's “Beautiful” are all points plotting the smooth-jazz star's trajectory. ![]() Kenny G’s music has been so ubiquitous since the early '80s that it’s hardly surprising The Essential Kenny G plays out almost as an unwitting pop-culture chronicle.
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