Kenny G's 'I'M IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE...THE MOST ROMANTIC MELODIES OF ALL TIME' Debuts at #1 on the Contemporary and Current Overall Jazz Charts

Kenny G's 'I'M IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE...THE MOST ROMANTIC MELODIES OF ALL TIME' Debuts at #1 on the Contemporary and Current Overall Jazz Charts

Debuts on the Billboard Top 200 Chart at #37

Kenny's 12th #1 Contemporary Jazz Charting Album

His First Newly Recorded All Instrumental Album of Popular Material Since 2002

Featuring Classic Love Songs Old and New - From the title track, 'I'm In The Mood For Love' to 'You're Beautiful' and 'The Way You Look Tonight'

Follow-up to Kenny G's #1 Top Contemporary Jazz Albums 'The Greatest Holiday Classics'(2005) and 'At Last...The Duets Album'(2004)

NEW YORK, Nov. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Kenny G's 17th album for Arista Records, I'M IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE...THE MOST ROMANTIC MELODIES OF ALL TIME debuts today at the #1 spot on the "Current Overall Jazz Chart" and "Contemporary Jazz Chart" and enters the Billboard Top 200 chart at #37, scanning 32,282 units. This is Kenny's #12th album to hold the #1 position on the Contemporary Jazz Chart, more #1s than any other artist on the chart, and is his 14th album to chart on the Billboard Top 200 within the top 40 slots.

On I'M IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE...THE MOST ROMANTIC MELODIES OF ALL TIME, the world's most renowned soprano saxophone stylist lends his instrumental craft, for the first time, to an entire program of romantic songs featuring several of today's most recent chart hits: "If I Ain't Got You" (Alicia Keys), "You're Beautiful" (James Blunt), the first radio single from the album, and "You Raise Me Up" (Josh Groban). Kenny's choices also pay homage to the great 20th century American Songbook, from "The Way You Look Tonight" and "I'm In The Mood For Love", to Bread's "If" and Barbra Streisand's "The Way We Were" (find complete track listing below).

I'M IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE...finds Kenny working once again with his longtime collaborator, producer, arranger and keyboardist Walter Afanasieff (whose credits include Mariah Carey, Luther Vandross, Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Barry Manilow, and many others).

I'M IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE...THE MOST ROMANTIC MELODIES OF ALL TIME, follows up Kenny G's last year's indispensable collection of seasonal tunes, 'The Greatest Holiday Classics,' his fourth holiday best-seller. Prior to that in 2004, Kenny released the RIAA gold 'At Last...The Duets Album,' on which he was joined by such stellar vocalists and fellow instrumentalists as Barbra Streisand, LeAnn Rimes, Gladys Knight, Earth Wind & Fire, Yolanda Adams, Chaka Khan, Burt Bacharach, and Arturo Sandoval. Both albums rose to #1 on Billboard's Top Contemporary Jazz chart, and both were top 30 R&B and top 40 pop crossover successes. Kenny G is a Grammy award-winning artist, with cumulative international and domestic sales of over 70 million albums and eight #1 albums. He has recorded the best selling instrumental album of all time Breathless) and the best selling holiday album ever (Miracles), all accomplished through a twenty-year career as an Arista recording artist.

It is Kenny G's innate ability to create and set different moods with his music that has made him such an enduring force and earned him Grammy, American Music, Soul Train, World Music and NAACP Image Awards as well as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

I'M IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE...track listing:

You're Beautiful

The Way We Were

Yesterday

I'm In The Mood For Love

If

The Way You Look Tonight

If I Ain't Got You

Love Theme from "Romeo & Juliet"

It Had To Be You

The Shadow Of Your Smile

Fly Me To The Moon/You Make Me Feel So Young

As Time Goes By

You Raise Me Up

Source: Arista Records

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