Silhouette

Silhouette Artist: Kenny G
Label: Arista
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio Cassette


UPC: 078221845748
EAN: 0078221845748
ASIN: B000002VEV


Release Date: 1990-10-17

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Tracks:

  1. Silhouette
  2. Trade Winds
  3. I'll Be Alright
  4. Against Doctor's Orders
  5. Pastel
  6. We've Saved the Best for Last
  7. All in One Night
  8. Summer Song
  9. Let Go
  10. Home

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  1. Breathless
  2. The Moment
  3. Duotones
  4. Gravity
  5. Kenny G Live

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Surprisingly not horrible.......2007-01-19

Released in 1988 this is Kenneth Gorelick's fifth solo album. This is his second smash hit album, topping the jazz charts and nearly hitting number 1 on the Billboard top 200. The sound quality is very good. It is 48 minutes long.

With Kenny G, there seems to be the people who love him and the people who hate him and no middle ground. It is easy to sneer at him with his long wavy hair and soft jazz getting airplay on the easy listening and pop rock stations.

But, for a soft jazz musician, he is better than most. His compositions are fluid and interesting. Many soft jazz groups just go the sound and repetitiously play some pop hook. Kenny G's music is more imaginative than most.

But, it is still soft, pop jazz and is weak in some parts. It still have trouble getting past the opening title track. This is mainly because it was so overplayed, and there some parts that just get on your nerves. But, if it wasn't overplayed and if you listen carefully to the whole thing, you find it is a pretty good composition.

This is typical late eighties soft jazz. It even includes a few vocal tracks. It is the type of music most jazz muscians were playing at the time, even the old time fusion superstars like Billy Cobham and Chic Corea. It isn't as good as something by Billy Cobham, but it is certainly better than most of the mainstream pop jazz of that time.

5 out of 5 stars Smooth.......2006-06-24

Born Kenneth Gorelick, Kenny G is probably the best known American saxophonist. He rose to fame in the 1980s, and has gone places no other jazz musician has gone - in 2003, Kenny G was named the 25th-highest selling artist in America by the RIAA! Some dislike what he has done in the name of jazz, but it is hard to argue with success.

In fact, I love the smooth sound of Kenny G, and like this album immensely. Probably my favorite song on the album is We've Saved The Best Last with the legendary Smokey Robinson providing the vocal. Overall, I think that this is a great album. If you like the smooth jazzy sound of Kenny G, you'll like this CD. I highly recommend it!

5 out of 5 stars Silla.......2005-09-22

If you like instrumental music the album and Kenny G. is for you and if not then don't.

1 out of 5 stars Sorry Kenny But You Laid An Egg!.......2004-06-09

I know Kenny G practiced,I know how good he can be and most of all I've heard him WAILING on Jeff Lorber tunes like the
spiraling "Galaxian".So WHY THIS???Kenny-easy listening elevator
music is NOT the place for you to be!And considering the overall
caliber of your first three albums in the early 80's you MIGHT
have had an nice R&B audiance along with David Sanborn and
Grover Washington.Well instead your bound for the dentists office.So unless you enjoy that kind of thing then stick with
his albums from 1982 to 1985.

5 out of 5 stars My first and favorite Kenny G CD!.......2004-01-01

This was the first Kenny G CD I got, and I still can't get enough of listening to Silhouette the title track! I would also highly recommend his CD The Moment, another gem from a talented, sensitive man. I do wish people who know they do not like a particular musician would quit reviewing their work, as it gives an inaccurate rating to those who do enjoy the artist. Spend some time giving a comparative, thoughtful review to someone who you do like, and spare the rest of us your rhetoric!

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