Discover What’s Streaming On: Why do so many people loathe Kenny G’s music? Why do so many other people love it? That’s the conundrum considered by Listening to Kenny G (HBO Max), the latest installment in the Music Box anthology series that’s ...

The music star documentary is, by now, such a well-known medium of documentary filmmaking that it has its own name “The Rockumentary”. Standouts like Some Kind of Monster chronicle the production of Metallica’s polarising album St Anger, while more ...

Kenny G conquered American popular music, like it or not. The soprano saxophone melodist, born Kenneth Gorelick, skyrocketed to national celebrity in the 1980s with “smooth jazz” ballads like “Songbird” and “Silhouette.” He remains the best ...

Unlike revenge, irony is best served warm, and the authentic warmth of the director Penny Lane’s documentary “Listening to Kenny G” (streaming on HBO Max) makes its ironies all the more revelatory. In the guise of the banal fan-service genre of the ...