Kashif was obviously the star of the show on
G Force, and the same thing is true of
Kenny G's third album
Gravity. With the R&B singer/producer/composer once again serving as
G's executive producer,
G delivers another generally decent urban contemporary-oriented effort. This isn't to say that
G's sax playing on this CD is anything to rave about; although his improvisatory work with the Jeff Lorber Fusion had been impressive,
Gravity finds him playing like a poor man's
Grover Washington, Jr. The thing that brings the CD to life isn't
G's playing, but the producing and writing of
Kashif, one of R&B's finest artists of the '80s. In fact,
Gravity usually sounds like a
Kashif album, but with more instrumentals. As it turned out,
Gravity would be the last project
Kenny G would do with
Kashif -- and the last studio album he would do that had any type of integrity. ~ Alex Henderson