Faith-A Holiday Album

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Kenny G ~ Faith: A Holiday Album

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Kenny G currently owns the smooth-jazz soprano sax with his popular, mainstream arrangements and compositions. And on his first holiday album, in spite of every now and then predictable charts and phraseology, the saxman delivers a thoughtful and moving choice of songs, spirituals, and hymns, with his trademark sound wedded to a few ensemble and orchestral arrangements. The G-man stretches out in “Sleigh Ride” and “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” but these are balanced by more serious pieces such as the lovely, original “Eternal Light ( A Chanukah Song)” and “Ave Maria.” There is a genuine humbleness and inspired reverence within the playing here–as in, Kenny G actually means it, man. After a ghost track, “The Christmas Song,” the record closes with a haunting audio history of The usa’s last century, which runs under a revisited version of “Auld Lang Syne.” Summing up a turbulent and triumphant 100 years, this one is sure to put a lump on your throat and a tear on your eye. –Martin Keller