''G Force'' is the second studio album by American

saxophonist The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

Kenny G Kenneth Bruce Gorelick (born June 5, 1956) is an American smooth jazz saxophonist, composer, and record producer. His 1986 album ''Duotones'' brought him commercial success. Kenny G is one of the List of best-selling music artists, best-selli ...

. It was released by

Arista Records Arista Records ( ) is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. The label was previously a division of Bertelsmann Music G ...

in 1983, and peaked at number 6 on the ''Billboard'' Jazz Albums chart, number 17 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and number 62 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart.

Track listing

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Personnel

Musicians and Performers * Kenny G – saxophones,

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, synthesizer programming, synthesizers (1-3, 5),

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solo (5), percussion (6) *

Jeff Lorber Jeffrey H. Lorber (born November 4, 1952) is an American keyboardist, composer, and record producer. After six previous nominations, Lorber won his first Grammy Award on January 28, 2018 for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for ''Prototype'' ...

– keyboards (1, 2, 4) *

Barry J. Eastmond Barry James Eastmond (born January 11, 1959) is an American musician, composer, songwriter, and record producer. Eastmond is an adjunct professor at New York University Steinhardt Performing Arts Department in songwriting and is part of the NYU ...

– keyboards (1, 3, 5, 6) * Peter Scherer –

Synclavier The Synclavier is an early digital synthesizer, polyphonic digital sampling system, and music workstation manufactured by New England Digital Corporation of Norwich, Vermont. It was produced in various forms from the late 1970s into the ea ...

(1-6, 8) *

Kashif Kashif (also spelled Kaashif, Kaşif, Khasif , Kashef or Kawshif , ) is an Arabic word, commonly used as a male given name in the Muslim world. Its meaning is close to the "revealer", "discoverer", "uncoverer" or "pioneer", "explorer". When us ...

– keyboards (7, 8), synthesizers (7, 8), Synclavier (7), drums (7, 8), percussion (7, 8), bass (8) * Paul Lawrence Jones III – keyboards (8) * Ira Siegel – guitars (1, 3, 6, 8) * Marlon McClain – guitars (2, 4, 6) * Wayne Brathwaite – bass (1-7), synthesizers (3, 5, 6), percussion (6) *

Omar Hakim Omar Hakim (born February 12, 1959) is an American drummer, producer, arranger and composer. His session work covers jazz, jazz fusion, and pop music. He has worked with Weather Report, David Bowie, Foo Fighters, Chic, Sting, Madonna, Dire S ...

– drums (1, 2, 4, 6) *

Yogi Horton Lawrence "Yogi" Horton (October 1, 1953June 8, 1987) was an American R&B, funk, jazz and rock drummer. Horton worked and recorded as a session and touring drummer with a wide variety of musicians such as Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross, John Le ...

– drums (3) * Leslie Ming – drums (3, 5) *

Bashiri Johnson Bashiri Johnson (born May 12, 1955) is an American percussionist, whose work has appeared on many records, as well as in commercials, films, television, video games, and concert performances. He is known to be one of the most recorded percussio ...

– percussion (1, 3-5) * Steve Kroon – percussion (2) * Barry "Sunjohn" Johnson – lead vocals (1, 5) * Steve Horton – backing vocals *

Freddie Jackson Frederick Anthony Jackson (born October 2, 1956) is an American R&B singer. Originally from New York, Jackson began his professional music career in the late 1970s with the California funk band Mystic Merlin. Among his well–known R&B/soul hits ...

– backing vocals *

La Forrest 'La La' Cope La Forrest 'La La' Cope is an American singer and songwriter. She is best known for writing the hit song "You Give Good Love", recorded by Whitney Houston for her 1985 self-titled debut album, which went on to sell over 25 million units worldw ...

– backing vocals * Yolanda Lee – backing vocals * B. J. Nelson – backing vocals *

Lillo Thomas Lillo Thomas (born 1961) is an American sprint runner and soul musician. He reached the peak of his success as a recording artist in the 1980s. His most famous songs include "Sexy Girl" and "I'm in Love." Career Early in his life, Thomas was a c ...

– backing vocals Arrangements * Kenny G – arrangements (1-6) * Kashif – arrangements (1-3, 5, 7, 8) * Wayne Brathwaite – arrangements (1, 3, 5, 6) * Steve Horton – arrangements (1, 5)

Production

* Kashif – executive producer * Wayne Brathwaite – producer (1, 3-8), co-producer (2) * Kenny G – co-producer (2) * Darrell Gustamachio – engineer * Ron Banks – assistant engineer * John Davenport – assistant engineer * Larry DeCarmine – assistant engineer * Tom Gartland – assistant engineer * Carl Beatty – additional engineer * Bill Dooley – additional engineer * Brian McGee – additional engineer * Jon Smith – additional engineer * Michael H. Brauer – drum engineer (3) * Steve Goldman – mixing * Donn Davenport – art direction * Howard Fritzson – art direction * Tony Gable – logo design * Pierre Chanteau – photography * Pamela Jenette – make-up * Shanault Wadley – fashion designer * Jeffrey Ross Music – management

Track listing

Personnel

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Charts

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Singles

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