★★★★★
There are few things you can bet on that are absolute certainties. In the music world the top of the list has to include how Kenny G will always confound critics while at the same time delighting his fans. Few instrumental artists, save perhaps Herb Alpert, have understood over long periods of time, and here we're talking decades, exactly what kind of music will respond to the public's heart. G has never had that problem...
- www.jazzreview.com
2011-07-25
★★★★★
Kenny G is one of the most phenomenal smooth jazz musicians known through out history. He has sold over millions of albums and that is just in the United States. He started his solo career in 1982 and in now known worldwide. This album Heart and Soul is produced by Walter Afanasieff and Kenny G. himself. This is a smooth jazz style with a twist of urban with the help of vocal artists Babyface, "No Place Like Home," and Robin Thicke, "Fall Again."This album is very touching...
- www.jazzreview.com
2011-01-03
★★★★★
It is difficult for many pop fans to remember that there was a time when Kenny G was considered cool. For quite a few years KG has been treated with the kind of sarcastic contempt than Barry Manilow faced in the years that followed his commercial peak, and largely for the same reason: he was a talented musician who seemingly found a commercial formula and rode it to great popularlity, arguably at the expense of his artistic development...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Kenny G and his trusty Selmer Mark VI soprano saxophone have been fluttering over instrumentals since his self-titled debut in 1982. Heart and Soul marks his 13th studio album, and not much has changed from those beginnings, and that's just what the G-Man intended. A special note in the CD booklet recalls his youth attending an inner city public high school in Seattle, Washington, while grown up mainly on R&B music...
- www.the-trades.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Critics really get off on the visceral impact of edgy,aggressive music. Give 'em guitars that will peel paint off thewalls and synths that can rip through ears like a rustyfishhook, and you're almost guaranteed a rave review. Butfrankly, not all listeners want their paint peeled or earsripped, thank you very much. These folks would rather hearsomething soothing and tuneful ? music as comfortable as an oldshirt. And Kenny G has made millions providing it for them...
- ew.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
Kenny G's saxophone is like store-brand oatmeal: a mushy, bland, fruitless rendition of a hearty dish. It's easy to digest, though. The not-that-old G (and his Michael Bolton?esque mane) have peddled more than a dozen releases, including the best-selling instrumental album of all time. His new set of sundry cover tunes has one redeeming value: It adds quality vocals, courtesy of adult-contemporary stars like Daryl Hall and Barbra Streisand...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Kenny G At Last...The Duets Album Arista Records 2004 This album is the pinnacle of artistic inspiration, an achievement nonpareil for annihilating depression, a lone triumph among the hundreds of albums scrutinized annually in search of gems. Kenny G's At Last - The Duets Album is, in short, everything a jazz reviewer might possibly hope for. The ultimate stage for creative indulgence, limited only by natural ability. Mine, of course, not his. Mr...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Kenny G is so polarizing that his name is often the first lazy writers jot down when lamenting smooth-jazz or music's state in general. On the other hand, he's the best-selling instrumentalist of all time and is essentially critic-proof. Look, you'll either love his new CD—and you will if you're a fan—or you'll steer far away from the music and the album shots of Kenny barefoot, Kenny on the beach, Kenny's crotch in close-up repose (he's got jeans on) and Kenny's sax on crumpled bedsheets...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-02-19
★★★★★
It seems only right that a Kenny G CD would wind up in Starbucks coffee stores, as the Seattle native, now living on the beach in L.A., had the insight to snap up stock when the coffee giant offered its IPO. This CD, his first after breaking away from Clive Davis and Arista, is pure Kenny G, all the way. It's marketed as a project of Latin love songs, and the fire and passion you'd expect from that is here, but as always it's the G-way or the highway...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-02-19
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