I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.

6. When he entered high school he failed on his first try to get into the jazz band but tried again the following year and earned first chair. He is an avid golfer and has a handicap of +0.

His fourth album Duotones brought him breakthrough success in 1986. Kenny G is the biggest-selling instrumental musician of the modern era with global sales totaling more than 75 million records. Kenneth Bruce Gorelick (born June 5 1956) better known by his stage name Kenny G is an American adult contemporary and smooth jazz saxophonist.