Say what you will, but I’ve always had a soft spot for Kenny G. I’m a sucker for the pure, spun-sugar sax appeal of instrumental hits like “Songbird,” “Silhouette” and the aptly named “Sentimental.” ...

For some odd reason that I cannot quite understand, I grew up listening to a very (un)healthy amount of Kenny G. The track “Songbird”—you know the one—could be heard on any given day throughout my ...

His signature saxophone made him the top-selling instrumentalist of all time. This Friday, Kenny G brings his “Miracles Holiday & Hits Tour” to Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races in West Virginia, ...

Kenny G conquered American popular music, like it or not. The soprano saxophone melodist, born Kenneth Gorelick, skyrocketed to national celebrity in the 1980s with “smooth jazz” ballads like ...

If the Jazz Police began launching midnight raids against musicians who offended their sensibilities, Kenny G would be at the top of their list. The 65-year-old saxophone player has been called the ...

Kenny G made his first appearance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1987 on the back of his multiplatinum album Duotones and the hit single from it Songbird which was riding high in charts around the ...

While standing in line at the grocery store the other day, I heard The Cure blasting through an overhead speaker. For those of us a certain age, it’s odd to confront the fact that the edgy ...

I guarantee that my pops had plenty of access to avant-garde jazz back in the early nineties. But instead, on our many rides in his 1992 Ford Crown Victoria, to the commissary, sporting events, school ...

With apologies to Elvis Presley: Can 75 million Kenny G fans be wrong to love the man who inspired the "smooth jazz" genre? That's the question at the heart of the brilliant new HBO documentary, ...

Critics often dismiss the smooth-jazz sounds of artists like Kenny G, with WVIA-FM's George Graham once citing a lack of “fire and creativity that marked the best of the fusion scene during its heyday ...

If the Jazz Police began launching midnight raids against musicians who offended their sensibilities, Kenny G would be at the top of their list. The 65-year-old saxophone player has been called the ...