G Force

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Another Strong Kenny Cd, 2004-11-02
G Force is Kenny at his RB best! with that Great Kashif sound! here is another great cd in that smooth jazz tradition that is good all the way through... I do hope in the near future Kenny will return to this type of production and vary his sax playing. br /"I've Been Missin'You' is some of Kenny's strongest playing!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Take It From Me, 2004-07-17
Anyone who has lived through the "fusion" Jazz era would understand. "G"-Force is the best Kenny G album ever made. You can't have a tru appreciation of jazz without realizing the importance of it's soul content.pKenny G lost the edge that G-Force had begun to establish. David Sanborne and even his earlier partner Jeff Lorber have gone on to realize true success. They never lost that edge. Kashif's contributions to the G-Force album were wonderful. Kenny could have really been a G-Force in the jazz arena had he stayed with the flavor.pIt was that creative energy back in the early 80's that made fusion jazz a beautiful thing. Judst check out "Back street" from David Sanborne. If anyone cannot appreciate the G-Force album, then they've missed the elements necessary to relate to fusion jazz.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Kenny G Ushered in Smooth Jazz, 2004-07-11
Between Kenny G and David Sanborn, we ended up with a new genre of jazz music, which thankfully has hung on after all of the horrible R B that has hit the airwaves. Yes, I am more of an early Kenny G enthusiast (Duotones is his best, in my opinion, though I do love his Kashif colloborations), but people like Praful, Kevin Toney, and others owe it to the original sounds Kenny and Sanborn brought to the table. Get over the long hair and Michael Bolton fears, relax the "threat" to your manhood and enjoy decent music. This and Duotones are excellent starts to those who want to hear Kenny G at his rhythmic best.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Great Sophmore Album!, 2004-06-15
Kenny turns from ex-leader Jeff Lorber as producer to earlybr80's electrofunk maestro Kashif and turns in a fine collection ofbrbouncy funky RB sax tunes,all with a great rhythm and some greatbrvocals.Kenny G's solo' here evoke a soulful,late night mood and have a definate hipness that none of his future music would comebrclose to replicating.The grooving title song,the fine gospel-brinflected vocals on "Hi,How Are you Doing?" and a kineticbrcover of Kashif's own "Help Yourself To My Love" are sure-firebrhighlites.A warning:as with all of Kenny's first 3 albums loversbrof his post-'Duotones' album's won't find anything of interestbrhere for them.These are soulful,funky and often exciting RBbrsongs that no,don't hold much jazz interests,but are at least abrpromising start to something that shouldn't have gone that way that it did!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

I second MCB's sentiments..., 2004-02-25
He summed it up completely. This CD is far more diverse and entertaining than any of KG's ensuing releases. I stopped buying his music when I realized that the funky edge was replaced with commercialism. Interestingly, the radio station KUTE 102 in L.A. went off the air shortly after this G Force release. Its successor, KTWV - "The Wave", came on... brbrKUTE introduced me to MANY up-tempo smooth jazz artists including KG. Sadly, KTWV, with its slow, boring, background music (including KG's subsequent releases), compelled me to find a different "favorite" radio station and format (89.9 KCRW's "Metropolis" with Jason Bentley).