Kenny G

"This is sooo fun!" says Kenny G, strolling out onstage before yet another sold-out crowd. Ever amiable, ever eager to please, enjoying every minute of his remarkably successful career, the slender Pied Piper of Pop has yet to meet an audience he hasn't loved. "Sure, I love people," says the saxophonist, who opens a four-night stand at the Greek Theatre on Wednesday, followed by a performance at the Pacific Amphitheatre next Sunday, "and I want to communicate with people.

So much for "Forever in Love," Kenny G. Twenty years after that tune came out - and also 20 years after Kenneth Bruce Gorelick and Balynda Benson-Gorelick said "I do" - the smooth-jazz man has filed for divorce. The papers, filed Thursday and obtained by TMZ, cite irreconcilable differences and indicate he's seeking joint custody of their 14-year-old son, Noah. Kenny didn't exactly strike first. Balynda filed for legal separation back in January, according to E! News, a move that's reflected in the paperwork.

For the first time in its 13-year history, the Orange County Performing Arts Center is teaming with a major pop and rock concert promoter to bring a star to the lavishly appointed, 3,000-seat Segerstrom Hall. The show, by mellow-pop saxophonist Kenny G on Nov. 28, is being jointly produced by the center, Orange County's most upscale performing space, and SFX Entertainment, the nation's biggest concert promoter.

NEW YORK -- Smooth jazz star Kenny G makes an unlikely rebel. But he had to put his sax down when his longtime label insisted he do yet another album of standards. The G-man saw no point in following Rod Stewart, Barry Manilow and other older artists down that path. So he got an amicable divorce from Arista Records and returned to making original music. "All my success in the past . . .

He's the biggest saxophone sensation around. He's a pop star posing as a jazz musician. He's a man with the shortest last name in show biz. He's Kenny G, and he'll be at the Arlington Theater in Santa Barbara Friday night. In the last few years since the surprise success of his album "Duotones," soprano saxophonist Kenny G has swept the music scene like few other instrumentalists.

Miles Davis doesn't compliment just anybody . Noted as a standoffish loner, the legendary trumpeter praised sax player Kenny G one day when both were in the same jazz festival lineup. Davis' praise was music to G's ears. Though he has probably told the story a hundred times, G (whose full surname is Gorelick) gleefully repeated it during breakfast late one morning. Like most people telling Davis stories, Gorelick did an imitation of Davis' croaky voice.

** KENNY G "The Moment" Arista Is Kenny G smart or what? Here's a guy with nothing more to rely on than fairly mediocre skills as a saxophonist, a boyish manner and great hair, and what does he do with it? He makes himself the No. 1 instrumentalist in the history of the music charts. "The Moment" is G's ninth album, and the title single has already burst through on the airwaves. Expect to hear more.

So much for "Forever in Love," Kenny G. Twenty years after that tune came out - and also 20 years after Kenneth Bruce Gorelick and Balynda Benson-Gorelick said "I do" - the smooth-jazz man has filed for divorce. The papers, filed Thursday and obtained by TMZ, cite irreconcilable differences and indicate he's seeking joint custody of their 14-year-old son, Noah. Kenny didn't exactly strike first. Balynda filed for legal separation back in January, according to E! News, a move that's reflected in the paperwork.

Music fans and golf lovers find a common link in the December issue of Golf Digest, which includes the magazine's "Top 100 in Music" list, ranking rap stars, country crooners, jazz instrumentalists and rock 'n' rollers by handicap index. Smooth jazz saxophonist Kenny G claimed No. 1 with an impressive +0.6 handicap. All three of the Gatlin Brothers made their presence felt inside the top 10, along with No Doubt drummer Adrian Young at No. 5.

Nobody was more surprised than R&B/jazz saxophonist Kenny G (ne Gorelick) when "Songbird," a soothingly airy instrumental from his current "Duotones" album, cracked Billboard's Top 20 pop chart--and subsequently became the biggest hit of his career. While he had racked up modest hits in the past, including the 1984 Kashif-produced "Hi, How Ya Doin' " and last year's remake of Junior Walker's "What Does It Take to Win Your Love," both were funky, dance tunes featuring black R&B singers.

Nine-year-old Brooke Porter was enjoying a day at Malibu's Little Dume Beach with her family last Saturday when it happened. About 50 feet above the beach, someone threw objects from the bluff-top compound owned by musician Kenny G onto the sand below. Brooke was hit in the head, causing a scalp injury. Now, L.A. County Sheriff's detectives are trying to sort out what happened -- and who is to blame. "The 9-year-old girl needed four stitches," said Sheriff's Capt.

Music fans and golf lovers find a common link in the December issue of Golf Digest, which includes the magazine's "Top 100 in Music" list, ranking rap stars, country crooners, jazz instrumentalists and rock 'n' rollers by handicap index. Smooth jazz saxophonist Kenny G claimed No. 1 with an impressive +0.6 handicap. All three of the Gatlin Brothers made their presence felt inside the top 10, along with No Doubt drummer Adrian Young at No. 5.

Kenny G will bring his repertoire of jazz and R & B-flavored tunes to the Civic Arts Plaza for a Saturday night concert. He's got the hair. He's got the hits. He's got it all except praise from the critics, who purchase few albums anyway. Kenny G (for Gorelick) is a Seattle native with a storybook career. He played the sax in high school and studied accounting at the University of Washington.

For the first time in its 13-year history, the Orange County Performing Arts Center is teaming with a major pop and rock concert promoter to bring a star to the lavishly appointed, 3,000-seat Segerstrom Hall. The show, by mellow-pop saxophonist Kenny G on Nov. 28, is being jointly produced by the center, Orange County's most upscale performing space, and SFX Entertainment, the nation's biggest concert promoter.

* FAMILY: The popular We Tell Stories performance troupe presents "The Season of Giving," a free theatrical frolic through the holidays, with lots of audience participation, Saturday at 2 p.m. at the L.A. Central Public Library's family-friendly Mark Taper Auditorium.

"I'm just trying to stretch 15 minutes out to 20 minutes," Toni Braxton says of her fame. The sultry soul singer has an endearing way of underplaying her enormous success, which long ago surpassed the 15-minute mark. Braxton is one of the hottest female artists in the competitive pop galaxy. Her 1993 debut album ("Toni Braxton") has sold an astonishing 10 million copies worldwide, and the follow-up album ("Secrets"), released in June, shattered any notions of a sophomore jinx.

The new Toni Braxton video for the song "You're Making Me High" presents a distinct image for the singer--slinky and funky, with hip, urban youth appeal. So what could be more un-hip for Braxton than to tour with Kenny G? But that's just what she's doing, with the smooth saxman headlining a 50-date trek now set to begin in October, with dates that month expected at the Hollywood Bowl and the Pond of Anaheim.

After the end of the encore of his two hour-plus show at the Universal Amphitheatre Saturday, saxophonist Kenny G continued to play alone for a few moments, as if he just couldn't stop and had to be carried off stage by his band mates. Yes, it was a joke, but it had a lot of truth to it too.

** KENNY G "The Moment" Arista Is Kenny G smart or what? Here's a guy with nothing more to rely on than fairly mediocre skills as a saxophonist, a boyish manner and great hair, and what does he do with it? He makes himself the No. 1 instrumentalist in the history of the music charts. "The Moment" is G's ninth album, and the title single has already burst through on the airwaves. Expect to hear more.

The new Toni Braxton video for the song "You're Making Me High" presents a distinct image for the singer--slinky and funky, with hip, urban youth appeal. So what could be more un-hip for Braxton than to tour with Kenny G? But that's just what she's doing, with the smooth saxman headlining a 50-date trek now set to begin in October, with dates that month expected at the Hollywood Bowl and the Pond of Anaheim.