

Even an artist as popular as this adult-contemporary tycoon has his rarities. Kenny Gorelick swings hard on 1980's "Wizard Island" with the Jeff Lorber Fusion, the producer Kashif helped bring him into the R&B mainstream with the funky "Hi, How Ya Doin'?" and he more recently turned eastward with santoor (hammered dulcimer) player Rahul Sharma on the serene "Transcendental Consciousness".