Eventually topping 5 million sales, the silky-smooth jazz album led the way for Kenny G to work with other big-name stars, including Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston and Natalie Cole. His next two albums, G Force (1983) and Gravity (1985), continued his upward trajectory, but it was his fourth studio album, Duotones (1986), that made the saxophonist an international star. Striking a balance between jazz and R&B, the record marked a solid start to his solo career. In 1982, after inking a deal with Arista Records, Kenny G released his self-titled debut album. Kenny G also won a Grammy Award in 1994, and at one point held the world record for the longest sustained note on a sax. Later albums, including Breathless and Miracles, helped make him one of the top-selling artists of all time. Kenny G released his debut album in 1982, and rose to international fame following the 1986 release of Duotones. Licensed from Muze.Grammy award winning saxophonist Kenny G began playing professionally at age 17, when he performed with Barry White and his Love Unlimited Orchestra. Source: The Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin. He sells albums in rock group proportions and his popularity is consistent. Popular music has at least given rise to the great crossover debate. The crossover into pop is felt to be too strong by most jazz critics, as the type of music he plays is very structured and contrived. Part of his tirade included a description of Kenny G.s lame-ass, jive, pseudo bluesy, out-of-tune, noodling, wimped out, fucked up playing. Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, not normally known for abusive language and outbursts of anger, was moved to offer his thoughts on the matter via his own website. A badly chosen career move that year was to sample Louis Armstrongs What A Wonderful World and to solo alongside it. enjoyed a US Top 10 single with his version of √uld Lang Syne. He changed tack for the subsequent Classics In The Key Of G, a collection of jazz standards, which still managed to sound like all his other recordings. The rude interloper to this was The Moment, the new album from. It was finally toppled in October 1996 after an incredible run. Miracles: The Holiday Album rocketed to the top of the US pop charts, re-igniting interest in Breathless which, by the mid-90s had sold over 11 million copies in the USA alone and had remained at the top of the Billboard jazz chart for well over 18 months. He was also acknowledged as fellow musician President Clintons favourite saxophonist. In 1992, he collaborated with Michael Boltons on the US Top 20 hit Missing You Now, and released the multi-platinum Breathless. Kenny G.s extraordinary success continued into the 90s. Like its predecessor, the album sold over three million copies worldwide. Among the guest artists on Silhouette was Smokey Robinson who sang Weve Saved The Best For Last. was in demand to play solos on albums by such singers as Whitney Houston, Natalie Cole and Aretha Franklin. Like much of his other work, it featured a flawless, melodic alto saxophone solo. Produced by Preston Glass and Narada Michael Walden, Duotones was a major success and it included Songbird, a US Top 5 hit in 1987. After graduation, he joined the Jeff Lorber Fusion, recording with the jazz rock band for Arista Records, the label that in 1981 signed him to a solo contract. Gorelick first recorded with local funk band Cold, Bold And Together and also backed many leading artists on their Seattle shows. Two years later he played with Barry Whites Love Unlimited Orchestra in Seattle before entering the University of Washington to study accounting. Gorelick learned saxophone as a child and toured Europe in 1974 with the Franklin High School band. Kenneth Gorelick, 5 June 1956, Seattle, Washington, USA.
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