Dammit, Mike, you made me do something I never thought I'd have to do: look up Kenny G on AMG.
I didn't realize that his career went back so far (his first album in 1982). For some reason I thought him a 90's phenomenon, which is why I wasn't sure if he hit the tail end of the "LP age."
Dude, he was recording as a sideman w/Jeff Lorber before that, 1980's WIZARD ISLAND on Arista.
How does he sound? Not bad, not great, "in the style", etc. No inkling whatsoever of what was to come.
If we had known then what we knew now...
It may be the fact that I grew up in Portland, Oregon when all these "sounds" were coming to the fore, but I've always dug "Wizard Island" and the other Lorber Fusion records from back in the day. But you're right, Jim...had we known...dayummmmm....