Unlike revenge, irony is best served warm, and the authentic warmth of the director Penny Lane’s documentary “Listening to Kenny G” (streaming on HBO Max) makes its ironies all the more revelatory. In ...

Is there a more successful yet maligned artist than Kenny G? Maybe not. But Penny Lane's doc is also an elegy to that kind of culture fight. “How’re you feeling?” Penny Lane asks Kenny G. G turns, and ...

Director Penny Lane ('Nuts!') examines how popular success has made the top-selling instrumentalist one of the most reviled figures in commercial music, a field known for co-opting the counterculture.

Discover What’s Streaming On: Why do so many people loathe Kenny G’s music? Why do so many other people love it? That’s the conundrum considered by Listening to Kenny G (HBO Max), the latest ...

The director of the documentary 'Hail Satan?' turns Kenny G into her latest reclamation project in this documentary, part of Bill Simmons' 'Music Box' anthology. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television ...

Likely the world’s most famous instrumentalist and certainly its most successful, with some 75 million albums sold, Kenny G effectively birthed smooth jazz as a marketable format and forever earned ...

Who had "Kenny G. plays sax on a death metal song" on their 2022 collaboration scorecard? Though it's something you might not have expected, it works marvelously well as the legendary sax player ...

Penny Lane’s documentary about the superstar sax player Kenny G shows an artist who can be defensive and self-satisfied almost simultaneously. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Are we standing on the precipice of a Kenny G comeback? Stranger things have happened. The smooth-jazz sax-man, who was impossibly and bafflingly huge in the early ’90s, has always shown a certain ...