Kenny G

Kenny G is frustrated. “I want the sound to be perfect,” the musician says while playing a sweet sax lick from a promotional video on his iPhone. The quality, even over Zoom, is seemingly pristine. Unveiling a longer version of the infomercial-like ad beyond the music portion, the musician born Kenneth Bruce Gorelick, needs me to understand why it’s not up to his standards. If it was just him speaking, he says, it would have been done in five minutes. But add in the sax? It took him hours. “Every time I play a little lick in front of my speech, it’s like my record, it has to be perfect,” he emphasizes. But G’s “frustration” barely elicits a frown. Truthfully, it seems near-impossible to dim his unwavering optimism — his famed curls and toothy grin constantly radiate, creating a halo effect...