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Music clip - 'Songbird' by Kenny G2. SOT Kenny G - \"I'm excited because it's been about four or five years since I have put out an album of new music. It just took a long time for me to create things that I was proud of, that I felt...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Music clip - 'Songbird' by Kenny G\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOT Kenny G - \"I'm excited because it's been about four or five years since I have put out an album of new music. It just took a long time for me to create things that I was proud of, that I felt were another step in my musical creativity, in my progress as a musician. I am very proud of this music. It's got more rhythm than I have had in past, I have got two vocalists on this record, Chante Moore and Brian McKnight. So the whole thing is just a beautiful piece of work and I am very proud of it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Music clip - 'Havana' by Kenny G\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOT Kenny G - \"My relationship with my saxophone is, I don't know how to describe it in words, it's the one thing that has always been there. I treat it right and it treats me right, I am nice to it and it is nice to me. It's always there and it is something that I know that I can go to, that I can do. I know when I pick it up it's not going to be something that I have to work hard at doing well.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Music clip - 'Havana' by Kenny G\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOT Kenny G - \"Franklin was one of those schools where there is a third Asian, a third black and a third caucasian I guess, it's an inner city school and so I grew up listening to a lot of R and B music, so I could play my saxophone more like a lot of the R and B saxophone players and yet I was a really good reader of music. So when Barry White's orchestra came in to town they were looking for someone that could read their charts and yet still be able to improvise in that R and B style. There wasn't anyone that could do it, I was the only guy that had all those chops, so my high school band teacher recommended me for the gig and I got the gig and that's how I got it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7.  Music clip - 'Songbird' by Kenny G\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOT Kenny G - \"Everything is free and easy, that's my whole style. I don't get excited about a lot of things, in a bad way. I get excited about good things but the bad things that come along I know that usually bad things don't end up being that bad things after a couple of days and so I don't freak out about stuff that comes my way that isn't my favourite stuff to hear you know. \"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Music clip - 'Havana' by Kenny G\u003cbr/\u003eOn his new album 'Paradise', smooth saxophonist KENNY G shows the world he can master modern R'n' B as well as pop and Jazz.\u003cbr/\u003eThe artist jazz purists and musicians love to hate, Kenny G is nevertheless a popular phenomenon, with thirteen best selling multi-platinum albums to his name.\u003cbr/\u003eWith song titles like 'Malibu Dreams', ' Spanish Nights' and 'Ocean Breeze', 'Paradise' has taken Kenny many years to write.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I'm excited because it's been about four or five years since I have put out an album of new music,' he says. \"It just took a long time for me to create things that I was proud of, that I felt were another step in my musical creativity, in my progress as a musician. I am very proud of this music. It's got more rhythm than I have had in past, I have got two vocalists on this record, Chante Moore and  Brian McKnight. So the whole thing is just a beautiful piece of work and I am very proud of it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e'Paradise' sees former accounting student Kenneth Gorlick team up with crooner Brian McKnight on the track 'All The Way', and R 'n' B singer Chante Moore on 'One More Time'. But it is his sax that is, as always, the real star of the album. It also seems to be the love of his life.\u003cbr/\u003e\"My relationship with my saxophone is, I don't know how to describe it in words, it's the one thing that has always been there. I treat it right and it treats me right, I am nice to it and it is nice to me. It's always there and it is something that I know that I can go to, that I can do. I know when I pick it up it's not going to be something that I have to work hard at doing well\"\u003cbr/\u003eKenny G's won Grammy, American Music, Soul Train and World Music awards for his unique brand of easy listening pop-jazz. He's played with the likes of Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston and Natalie Cole and is described in his press release as the \"premiere saxophonist of his generation\". And who does the world have to thank for unleashing such a magnificent talent on the world? Washington University in Seattle and the Duke of Love, Barry White.\u003cbr/\u003eKenny explains: \"Franklin was one of those schools where there is a third Asian, a third black and a third caucasian I guess, it's an inner city school and so I grew up listening to a lot of R and B music, so I could play my saxophone more like a lot of the R and B saxophone players and yet I was a really good reader of music. So when Barry White's orchestra came in to town they were looking for someone that could read their charts and yet still be able to improvise in that R and B style. There wasn't anyone that could do it, I was the only guy that had all those chops, so my high school band teacher recommended me for the gig and I got the gig and that's how I got it.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe title song on his album, 'Paradise', is described as having the same \"soulful melancholy\" that is Kenny's \"musical trademark\".\u003cbr/\u003e'Malibu Dream' is a \"smooth, mood evoking piece\" which echoes his \"wistful\" classic 'Songbird' from 1986, while 'Brazil' captures the \"rhythmic flavour\" of the country of the same name. 'Falling In the Moonlight' is \"simply almost classical\", while on 'Midnight magic' Kenny struts his soulful stuff and gives us a \"so-funky jam with a decidedly old school feel'. 'Spanish Nights' apparently conjures up \"visions of enchanted candle-lit evenings\" while 'Seaside Jam' Kenny offers a \"perky slice of R'n'B flavoured smooth jazz\".\u003cbr/\u003eKenny explains how he weaves such magic with his horn.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Everything is free and easy, that's my whole style, \" he imparts. \"I don't get excited about a lot of things, in a bad way. I get excited about good things but the bad things that come along I know that usually bad things don't end up being that bad things after a couple of days and so I don't freak out about stuff that comes my way that isn't my favourite stuff to hear you know.\"\u003cbr/\u003eMaybe what helps him to be so relaxed about life are the many calm hours he spends on the golf course. He was Co-champion of the 2001 AT\u0026amp;T Pebble Beach Celebrity Pro-Am competition. He also owns and pilots his own sea-plane.\u003cbr/\u003eSo does Kenny G deserve to the bad press he gets from serious jazz artists and listeners? One critic, reviewing his 1992 best-seller 'Breathless' thought not, because Kenny never claimed to a hard-bop improvising artist. 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