Illustration by Matthew Billington
After playing a concert in the Netherlands in the summer of 1988, Seattle-born saxophonist Kenneth Gorelick, more widely known as Kenny G, woke to his hotel phone ringing at two in the morning. The voice on the other end was a fellow musician, Grammy-winning saxophonist David Sanborn—famous for solos on David Bowie’s “Young Americans” and James Taylor’s “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)”—saying, “Come down to the bar. I’ve got to talk to you.”
“What do you want to talk about?” Gorelick remembers saying.
“Just get down here, please.”
Gorelick and Sanborn had performed earlier that evening at the North Sea Jazz
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