G Force [Original recording remastered, Import]

Kenny G | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 6, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Import
• Label: Bmg Japan
• ASIN: B000244TRO
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,514,463 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hi, How Ya Doin'?

2. I've Been Missin' You

3. Tribeca

4. G Force

5. Do Me Right

6. I Wanna Be Yours

7. Sunset at Noon

8. Help Yourself to My Love

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Sophmore Album!, June 15, 2004

By 

Andre' S Grindle "Funk Meister" (Bangor,ME.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: G Force (Audio CD)

Kenny turns from ex-leader Jeff Lorber as producer to early
80's electrofunk maestro Kashif and turns in a fine collection of
bouncy funky R&B sax tunes,all with a great rhythm and some great
vocals.Kenny G's solo' here evoke a soulful,late night mood and have a definate hipness that none of his future music would come
close to replicating.The grooving title song,the fine gospel-
inflected vocals on "Hi,How Are you Doing?" and a kinetic
cover of Kashif's own "Help Yourself To My Love" are sure-fire
highlites.A warning:as with all of Kenny's first 3 albums lovers
of his post-'Duotones' album's won't find anything of interest
here for them.These are soulful,funky and often exciting R&B
songs that no,don't hold much jazz interests,but are at least a
promising start to something that shouldn't have gone that way that it did!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "One Man's Poison..., September 26, 2001

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MCB (Orange, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: G Force (Audio CD)

...is another man's sweetness" is how one of Kenny G's song goes. I see that most people reviewing this don't seem to like this album. One person rated this as "slow and weak" (That person probably likes the "slow and weak" song, "Songbird" from one of his sellout albums). Others have said the songs on this album were "...very repetitive..." and "...sounds the same...". That's funny, because most of his subsequent hits sounded like re-hashes of his first hit, "Songbird".

But I will dismiss the naysayers and proclaim that this is the ONLY Kenny G album I possess and would possess. This album has a more funky R&B groove that I appreciate more than his droning "adult-oriented" pop fare. Moreover this album was made before his record company literally forced him to come up with something more "watered down". They probably thought that because he was white, he wasn't going to sell a lot of records playing R&B/funk-style music, and that type of attitude is why I hate record executives (and some music listeners, as well).

And "sounds the same"??? Does "Hi, How Ya Doin'?" really sound the same as "Tribeca" (which is my favorite cut from this album)

Anyways, I have listened to Kenny's playing ever since the Jeff Lorber days and I definitely like this period in his career way much better than his "sell-a-million" hit-maiking days. I don't blame or hate Kenny G for going in this direction. But as far as uncompromised artistry is concerned, he proved that he is just as skilled on this album as he is on his future ones.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Strong Kenny Cd, November 2, 2004

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G. Carter "gcmusiclover" (Temple Hills, maryland United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: G Force (Audio CD)

G Force is Kenny at his R&B 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.
"I've Been Missin'You' is some of Kenny's strongest playing!