4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Kenny G is the best selling instrumentalist of all time. He has sold over 75 million albums, tours all over the globe, and holds the Guinness Book of World Records record for holding the longest note on a saxophone.
But he's also very into cooking! Kenny G spills the beans on the iconic coffee drink he helped invent and which supermodel gave him his pie crust recipe.
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0:00.0 | Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights. |
0:05.8 | Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show. |
0:24.7 | I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal. |
0:28.5 | A show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most. |
0:32.8 | Today on the program, saxophonist Kenny G. |
0:33.9 | Kenny G. |
0:35.6 | That's, I don't know why. |
0:36.3 | It just feels right. |
0:39.4 | Kenny G is one of the best-selling artists of all time. Listen to how many albums Kenny G. That's, I don't know why. It just feels right. Kenny G is one of the best-selling artists of all time. |
0:41.9 | Listen to how many albums Kenny G is sold. |
0:43.4 | 75 million. |
0:44.7 | That's a lot of albums. |
0:49.5 | And he was in the Guinness Book of World Records for holding the longest note on a saxophone. |
0:52.2 | Kenny G, I can't stop calling him anything but Kenny G. |
0:59.1 | Kenny G held an E-flat for 45 minutes and 47 seconds using a technique called circular breathing. |
1:04.4 | And I'm surprised every time I bring this up, like the record, people are like, oh, you're circular breathing. |
1:06.5 | I'm like, how does everybody know this fact? |
1:07.7 | I never heard of this. |
1:08.9 | What is circular breathing? |
1:18.7 | It's a technique that Woodwind players use where they store air in their cheeks just long enough to suck in air through their nose. |
1:23.2 | And so they push out that cheek air while they're breathing in through their nose. And then the lungs take over again. |
1:26.0 | So you have an uninterrupted airstream, |
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