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Article: Kenny G rejecting the standards path
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- March 9, 2008
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The easygoing, smooth jazz star Kenny G makes an unlikely rebel.
But he had to put his sax down when his longtime record label
insisted that he do yet another album of standards.
The G-man saw no point in following other older artists like Rod
Stewart and Barry Manilow down the well-worn path of playing cover
tunes. So he arranged an amicable divorce from Arista Records in
order to return to making original music.
"All my success in the past ... have always been my original
compositions played the way that I play and people seem to connect
with that," said Kenny G, in a telephone interview from his Malibu,
Calif., home. "I lost sight of that a little bit, and I'm glad to be
going back to my ...