Penny Lane Tunes Up ‘Becoming Kenny G’ Doc at Toronto Festival

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Addie Morfoot ContributorPenny Lane’s “Listening to Kenny G” is an insightful, thought provoking look at the easy-listening saxophonist’s successful career in music.

Lane chronicles the saxophonist’s rise to fame while also, humorously, exploring the love and the intense hate his music incites.

Film screens in the Toronto International Film Festival.How did you decide to make a film about Kenny G?Bill Simmons (creator of HBO’s Music Box series) contacted me and asked me to pitch him ideas for a music documentary.

I really wanted to work with him, but I was like I can’t think of a category of documentary that I’d be less interested in. So I thought, let me approach it like I’m back in art school on an assignment.