"Forever In Love" won the award for Instrumental Composition in the 36th Annual Grammy Awards. "Sentimental" was nominated for Best Pop Instrumental Performance in the 37th Annual Grammy Awards.
Kenny G is the quintessence of easy listening. His listener-friendly soprano sax ...
Given the widespread critical acclaim and commercial success Brian Culbertson garnered from 2008's retro Bringing Back the Funk, it would be understandably tempting for him -- or any musician -- to revisit it wholesale. However, Culbertson throws a changeup on ...
Smooth Jazz music. YES, PLEASE was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album.
This is jazz lite, no doubt about it--the four storied musicians who make up Fourplay would be the first to tell you so. But YES, PLEASE is ...
Smooth Jazz songs. While it was always a challenge to debut and market hot up-and-coming saxmen into the smooth jazz genre that often ran on the success of more established artists, Richard Elliot and Rick Braun -- smoothie superstars and two of the ...
Smooth Jazz songs. Pianist Theo Bishop's album NEWPORT NIGHTS is contemporary smooth jazz at its best. Bishop infuses his music with some sophisticated jazz harmonies and compelling melodic shifts, and his structural sense is both keen and unique to the genre.
The best example ...
Smooth Jazz album. Walter Afanasieff won the 2000 Grammy Award for Producer Of The Year for CLASSICS IN THE KEY OF G.
Some jazz critics may point to Classics in the Key of G as proof of Kenny G's lack of jazz substance, but ...