While expats might regard Kenny G (G for Gorelick) as an abomination, the Chinese, ladies in particular, consider his music first-grade foreign stuff. Male listeners probably won’t understand this infatuation, but they likely know nothing of the G-spot, either. Indeed, G’s sax sound is mellow, jazzy, sensual and instinctively attractive, turning on any female listener. He did study with the master – at age 17 he performed in Barry White’s orchestra. For this 15th album, the Grammy-Award winner saxophonist has invited the world’s most prestigious singers (Barbara Streisand, Earth Wind & Fire…) to sing, while he blows the pipe on good-old tunes that have ben lingering for years in the Western collective psyche. Kenny G will probably make many other albums after The Duets. He may blow forever; Kenny holds the Guinness World Book record for playing the longest note ever, an E, for over 45 minutes…
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November 2005 issue