World-famous saxophonist Dave Koz started playing his instrument as a way to spend more time with his older brother in the ’70s. At the time, Grand Funk Railroad was doing “The Loco-Motion,” while ...

He should be. Across the last two decades or so, he’s sustained a successful solo career in the genre. After serving as a sideman with singers Bobby Caldwell and Richard Marx and keyboardist Jeff ...

Twenty-five years ago, saxophonist Dave Koz and keyboardist David Benoit embarked on the first Dave Koz and Friends Christmas tour. That initial outing, born out of a period of grief for the two ...

It’s Dave Koz’s name atop the marquee. Yet, the acclaimed saxophonist knows that he’s not the true star of the Dave Koz & Friends Christmas Tour. “The star of the show is Christmas — the holidays,” ...

and by phone at 216-241-6000. CLEVELAND, Ohio – Stereotypes, shmereotypes. Fact is, Dave Koz, a nice Jewish boy from Encino, California, loves Christmas music. "As a guy who's got 17 years of touring ...

Dave Koz is ready to hit the studio, the road, and the boat post-pandemic. Credit: Photo by Colin Peck/Courtesy of Judi Kerr Public Relations With Pandemic Times headed toward the year and a half mark ...

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 ...

Passengers on a flight from St. Louis to Seattle got an unexpected pick-me-up when jazz saxophonist Dave Koz and bandmates held an impromptu jam session in the aisle while the plane was stuck on the ...

The annual winter tour by sax man Dave Koz has provided smooth-jazz fans with a high-spirited holiday party for several years. However, the tour has its roots in sadness. In 1997, Koz was grieving the ...

Back in fall 2019, as Dave Koz (playing Friday at PPL Center with Barry Manilow) was readying himself to do his annual holiday tour, he was already having thoughts about making an ambitious new album.

Dave Koz freely admits that he didn’t necessarily know what he was getting into when he launched a Christmas tour 25 years ago. “It seemed like a good idea at the time,” the 59-year-old saxophonist ...