Namaste (album)

Namaste
Cover to the American re-release
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 12, 2012 (2012-06-12)
Studio
  • Kenny G's Studio, Los Angeles, California, US
  • Rahul Sharma's Studio, Mumbai, India
Genre
Length50:07
LabelConcord Music Group (American edition)
Producer
  • Walter Afanasieff
  • Marc JB (American edition)
  • Kid Tricky (American edition)
  • Rahul Sharma
Kenny G chronology
Heart and Soul
(2010)
Namaste
(2012)
Brazilian Nights
(2015)

"I took each song as it came. In the west, with jazz you are expected to play these elaborate solos. But in this album it was more organic. I experimented in 20 different ways before I found the right mix. I never thought of merging our sounds when I began. I wanted to place myself in the players' seat and see what comes off it."

—Kenny G on his approach to recording Namase.

Namaste (also known as Namaste, India) is a collaborative studio album by American soft jazz saxophonist Kenny G and Indian musician Rahul Sharma. The album was issued in two different formats in India (2011) and the United States (2012), with elements of both musicians' styles, with original compositions by Sharma that contrast string instruments and woodwind instruments.