Like a lot of over-50s, Kenny G admits that technology poses some challenges -- mostly when it comes to music. During a stop on his recent holiday tour, he spoke with the Peoria Journal: "It's not easy when you have an audience that's more mature, like my audience....If you're young, you've got a whole audience that's grown up with...downloading and the internet, they're really hip and savvy. They'll go and download and do that. But my audience didn't grow up with that. For me, it's pretty difficult because record stores aren't what they used to be, getting my music exposed to the people who like [it] is very, very difficult."

Those obstacles haven't hurt much: his latest album, Heart and Soul, was just nominated for a Grammy. "The vocal songs [with Robin Thicke and Babyface] are really awesome...Ten years ago they would have been really hit songs, but radio is different now...Both vocalists did a wonderful job. The mixture of sax and vocals is about perfect...It's just a wonderful album." Kenny is getting ready to kick off his new gig as morning drive co-host on the Broadcast Architecture network; he starts the first week of 2011.