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 ...

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 ...

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,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Musicians Dave Koz and Larry Graham are bringing their Side by Side tour to Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl on Sunday, but this isn't the first time the saxophonist and bassist have shared that stage. By ...

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 ...

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.