New Standards

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AlbumDec 03 / 202111 songs, 56m 30s
Cool Jazz Lounge

With 2021's elegant New Standards, saxophonist Kenny G wryly inserts himself into the pantheon of American Popular Songbook composers performing and writing songs that feel as if they were written during the heyday of traditional pop in the '50s and '60s.

Stultifyingly slow and near-lifeless. Album review by Sebastian Scotney