It's been 30 years since gay, smooth jazz superstar Dave Koz released his eponymous major label debut. Since then he has gone on to release more than a dozen studio albums, including his latest, A New ...

In such a chaotic, nasty times, shows such as these are a salve to a wounded culture. Every holiday season, a litany of shows invade Northeast Ohio — well, everywhere for that matter — in the hopes of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - If it’s December then it’s the holiday season. If it’s the holiday season, it’s holiday music season. And, if it’s holiday music season then it’s a safe bet that smooth jazz ...

The first time saxophonist Dave Koz played Wolf Trap, he opened for Ray Charles, in a major moment of his early career. Now, a seasoned artist with 12 albums and 20 years of successes behind him, he ...

One of these years, Dave Koz may decide to retire from his annual Christmas concert tour, now in its 28th season. But not just yet. “The end is in sight,” the popular smooth jazz saxophonist said.

Throughout its history, the smooth jazz genre that saxophonist Dave Koz helped pioneer has been criticized as having predictable melodies and lack of improvisational complexity. Branford Marsalis ...

Christmastime is Dave Koz time. It’s been that way for decades, beginning way back in 1997 when he ventured out on his very first holiday season tour with legendary pianist David Benoit and some other ...

In the pantheon of rock-bands-with-horns, the two usual suspects who come to mind are Chicago and Blood, Sweat and Tears. And if you expand musical genre to R&B, there’s Earth, Wind and Fire, Kool and ...

During the past 26 years Dave Koz has become one of the kings of Christmas — not bad for a Jewish guy from Tarzana, Calif. Nevertheless, the saxophonist — whose credits include Jeff Lorber, Richard ...

Fresh off a stripped-down duets album with pianist Bob James, Platinum-selling artist and saxophonist Dave Koz is shifting gears from an intimate pairing to a big, energetic horn section — one in ...

WHO IS HE: Dave Koz is a saxophone player whose 1990 self-titled album made headway on the Billboard contemporary jazz charts. A veteran of “The Arsenio Hall Show,” Koz utilizes synthesizers and drum ...