Kenny G Has Always Been In On the Joke. Now He’s Ready for the Praise.
In the introduction that played before screenings of the new documentary Listening to Kenny G this week at the Toronto International Film Festival, director Penny Lane explained, “Kenny G is the best-selling instrumentalist of all time. He is probably the most famous living jazz musician. And I made this film to find out why that makes certain people really angry.”
Talking to The Daily Beast recently over Zoom, the musician beams beneath his trademark ringlets when asked about that mission statement. “No, she never brought that to me. But she warned me when she sent the first draft of the movie. She said, ‘You’re not going to like the first 10 minutes.’”
Somehow then, his massive grin gets even bigger. “But I love those first 10 minutes, by the way.”
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