“Listening to Kenny G” Is an Ironic Masterpiece
In Penny Lane’s new documentary, the best-selling instrumental artist of all time unwittingly helps to explain why so many people dislike his music.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/listening-to-kenny-g-is-an-ironic-masterpiece
In the studio, Kenny G displays his own relentless adjustments of his own playing; he plays his soprano sax, and then has the recording engineer demonstrate the way it will sound on the record, after multiple “reverbs” are added to it—and this, the saxophonist says, is “what it really sounds like.” And, he adds, “When I give it my stamp of approval, I sit back and go, ‘That’s fuckin’ beautiful.’ I just say it.”