Kenny G (album)
Kenny G is the debut studio album by American jazz saxophonist Kenny G, released in 1982. It was released by Arista Records in 1982 and reached number 10 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart.
Kenny Garrett
In 1984, he recorded his first album as a bandleader, "Introducing Kenny Garrett", on the CrissCross label. He then recorded two albums with Atlantic Records: "Prisoner of Love" and "African Exchange Student". Since 1990 the majority of Garrett albums are co-produced by pianist/composer Donald Brown. Garrett signed to the Warner Bros. Records label, and beginning with "Black Hope", in 1992, he has continued to record with them. Among his recordings on Warner Bros. are "Pursuance: The Music of John Coltrane", recorded in 1996, and "Songbook", his first album made up entirely of his own compositions, recorded in 1997 and nominated for a Grammy Award. During his career, Garrett has performed and recorded with many jazz greats such as Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Joe Henderson, Brad Mehldau, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, Brian Blade, Marcus Miller, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, Bobby Hutcherson, Ron Carter, Elvin Jones, and Mulgrew Miller. Throughout his solo career, Garrett's music has varied stylistically from jazz and post-bop ("Triology", 1995; "Standard of Language", 2003) to soul, R&B and smooth jazz ("Simply Said", 1999; "Happy People", 2001). Garrett's music sometimes exhibits Asian influences, an aspect which is especially prevalent in his 2006 Grammy-nominated recording, "Beyond the Wall".