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Dave Koz (born March 27, 1963) is a Encino, California, U.S-based smooth jazz saxophonist who has become a staple of jazz and adult contemporary charts since his 1990 self-titled debut.

Born to a dermatologist father and pharmacist mother, Koz learned to play the saxophone from a young age, later playing in William Howard Taft High School’s jazz band. Despite subsequently graduating from UCLA with a degree in mass communications, the musician’s heart and soul were in music and Koz opted to pursue becoming a professional saxophone player. With very little time spared Koz was invited to join Bobby Caldwell’s touring band in the 1980s, after which the saxophonist would find himself touring with the likes of Jeff Lobber and Richard Marx. Following years of constant touring in which time Koz honed his live performance and improvisational skills, the musician played in the house band of the network TV show “The Pat Sajak Show”.

Following the show’s demise Koz opted to pursue a solo career and issued his debut, self-titled album in 1990. Released on Capitol Records, where Koz would remain for a string of albums, the record earned positive reviews and charted at No. 129 on the Billboard 200. The saxophonist’s second release on Capitol was the popular full-length “Lucky Man”, which peaked at No. 2 on the contemporary Jazz Chart aided by the No. 20 single adult contemporary single “You Make Me Smile”. Featuring Koz’s brother Jeff Koz on a number of the album’s tracks, the record went on to sell over half a million copies and introduced the musician to a much wider audience.

The full-length “Off the Beaten Path” followed in 1996 as did Koz’s debut live album “Live in Trinidad”. The following year Koz issued his first holiday album “December Makes Me Feel This Way” featuring a host of well-known christmas numbers and his brother on nylon guitar. In 2001 the saxophonist recorded his second christmas album “A Smooth Jazz Christmas” which peaked at No. 3 on the Contemporary Jazz Chart.

Following the release of his subsequent studio album “”At the Movies” Koz parted ways with EMI and signed with Concord who issued his 10th full-length album “Hello Tomorrow” in 2010. Three years later Koz would enjoy his greatest mainstream chart success with the collaborative album “Dave Koz & Friends - Summer Horns” alongside Gerald Albright, Mindi Abair, and Richard Elliott. The record was subsequently nominated for Best Pop Instrumental Album at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards and followed by the 2014 Christmas album, “The 25th of December”.

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Some people have an unteachable natural charisma when stepping out onto a stage and American musician Dave Koz is one of these. The smooth jazz artist may now be in his 50s yet he moves around the stage with the energy and vigour of somebody half his age. A trusty saxophone in hand, he manages to captivate and entertain the crowds despite not speaking a word between long instrumental breakdowns.

It is the natural charm that he oozes between the performances that has the crowd so firmly onside as he thanks them sincerely for the support and for coming out this evening. He has shared stages with huge icons over the years yet he seems most contented with his hand selected accompanying musicians tonight as they jam through the likes of 'Starting Over Again' and 'Life in The Fast Lane'. His summer horns series has been called a roaring success and there is no doubt he will soon be recreating the magic at jazz festivals all over the globe so keep your eyes peeled for this talented instrumentalist.

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Dave Koz and friends were PHENOMENAL! My first time seeing Dave Koz perform, blew my mind! Candy , Jonathan and Bill were Outstanding! We had church, celebrated Hanukkah, Christmas and most of All heard some GREAT JAZZ , played by Genius! The band was AWESOME as well!

Dave Koz went and did it again! The Summer Horns concert may have been a repeat of last summer but you would not know it. The fresh new songs combined with some of Dave's solos (which I always look forward to hearing) - they really made for a fantastic concert!

Simply the best! A showman who engages those playing with him. I He is my favorite saxophonist ! I actually met him tonight at a club and he was friendly and engaging- he even asked me my name! I WILL attend one of his concerts this year!

One of the best concerts we have ever been to. Mr. Koz is a true showman. The musical talent on stage was second to none. Jonathan Butler, Keiko Matsui, Mindi Abair and Shelea were marvelous! And the Ferguson Center is a perfect venue!

Dave Koz Put On A Wonderful Wonderful Show...It Was Off The Chain!!!!

He Has Soooo Much Energy!!!!This Was The Frist Time

We Ever Seen Him In Concert It Was A

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AWESOME! This was our first time going to his Christmas show. We enjoyed 2+ hours of music that included funk, gospel and of course CHRISTMAS cheer. Dave loves to entertain and it shows. We will be back next year.

The show was so awesome I know how much Dave Koz loves Kettering, Ohio, and he definitely showed it Friday night. He and David Sanborn were so awesome together. A terrific show indeed.

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Dave Koz and friends return to Florida with Summer Horns Tour 2023

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ORLANDO | Grammy Award nominated, multi-platinum selling jazz icon Dave Koz returns to Orlando July 2 with another Summer Horns Tour. This time he is bringing along some saxophone superstars in Candy Dulfer and Tampa local Eric Darius.

“The summer tour, and specifically when we do a Summer Horns Tour, that really is about the best music there is,” Koz says.

Summer Horns Tour started as a tip of the hat to some of Koz’s favorite horn bands that he listened to growing up like Earth, Wind & Fire, Chicago and Kool & The Gang.

“So Summer Horns is a celebration of that music and also of our music that we are adding to the overall mix of great horn music,” he says.

But Koz can’t do it alone and that is where Dulfer and Darius come in. Happy to grab two friends that he admires and hasn’t toured with yet, Koz speaks very highly about both guests on this tour.

Although slightly younger that the rest of the line up, Darius has impressed Koz with his energy and musicality. About Darius, Koz says “I like to call him the energizer bunny of saxophone cause he is just a machine.”

When talking about Dulfer, Koz highlighted her 30-year career noting her breakthrough as the first prominent female saxophone player.

“We remain great friends,” Koz says speaking about Dulfer. “She’s one of the funkiest people I have ever met in my entire life.”

But for Koz, the music is always the most important thing to focus on. Whether he is leading his own song or jumping on a track by Dulfer or Darius, Koz will be playing with the same intensity all night.

As for the rising anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment in the country, specifically in Florida, Koz is not seeing any blow-back but his focus is on the music and the crowd not the politics.

“In my music and the things that we do, the cruises I host and produce, the idea is that everybody sees each other and respect each other,” Koz says.

The Summer Horns Tour kicks off with the first show June 30 in Jacksonville, Florida. Koz and company then head to The Sound at Coachman Park in downtown Clearwater July 1 and the Dr. Phillips Center’s Steinmetz Hall July 2. Tickets are available now at DaveKoz.com/tour .

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Dave Koz and Friends Christmas Tour 2023

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• Date Dec 02 , 2023
• Event Starts 8:00 PM
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Featuring special guests Rebecca Jade and Marcus Anderson and introducing Justin-Lee Schultz!

Dave Koz and Friends announce the 26th anniversary edition of the longest-running jazz-based Christmas tour. Beginning the next era of this rich musical tradition, Koz and Friends will perform fresh renditions of timeless Christmas classics – as well as a Chanukah medley – and hits from their respective catalogues. The tour reunites Koz with long-time musical partner, guitarist/singer Jonathan Butler and will feature special guests, saxophonist/flutist Marcus Anderson making his debut, and vocalist Rebecca Jade, marking her third time with the tour. Traversing 25 cities over one month on the road, the tour will also introduce musical prodigy Justin-Lee Schultz, a 16-year old South Africa-born, U.S. based pianist/guitarist/vocalist and social media sensation. 

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Dave Koz and Friends Christmas Tour 2023 Featuring Jonathan Butler

With special guests rebecca jade, marcus anderson, & introducing justin lee schultz.

• Date November 30 , 2023
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Dave Koz and Friends  announce the 26th anniversary edition of the longest-running jazz-based Christmas tour. Beginning the next era of this rich musical tradition,  Koz and Friends  will perform fresh renditions of timeless Christmas classics – as well as a Chanukah medley – and hits from their respective catalogues. The tour reunites Koz with long-time musical partner, guitarist/singerJonathan Butler and will feature special guests, saxophonist/flutist Marcus Anderson making his debut, and vocalist Rebecca Jade, marking her third time with the tour. Traversing 25 cities over one month on the road, the tour will also introduce musical prodigy Justin-Lee Schultz, a 16-year old South Africa-born, U.S. based pianist/guitarist/vocalist and social media sensation. 

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Dave Koz and Friends announce the 26th anniversary edition of the longest-running jazz-based Christmas tour. Beginning the next era of this rich musical tradition, Koz and Friends will perform fresh renditions of timeless Christmas classics – as well as a Chanukah medley – and hits from their respective catalogues. The tour reunites Koz with long-time musical partner, guitarist/singerJonathan Butler and will feature special guests, saxophonist/flutist Marcus Anderson making his debut, and vocalist Rebecca Jade, marking her third time with the tour. Traversing 25 cities over one month on the road, the tour will also introduce musical prodigy Justin-Lee Schultz, a 16-year old South Africa-born, U.S. based pianist/guitarist/vocalist and social media sensation. 

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Chart-topping, GRAMMY®-nominated saxophonist  Dave Koz  returns to the road this holiday season with the 24th annual  Dave Koz and Friends Christmas Tour 2021  with South African guitarist/singer  Jonathan Butler , trumpeter  Rick Braun , saxophonist  Richard Elliot  and introducing vocalist  Rebecca Jade .

Koz and Friends will perform fresh renditions of timeless Christmas classics – as well as a Chanukah medley! – and hits from their respective catalogues. The festivities will be extra-special this year. In 2020, Koz and Friends mounted one of the most-successful livestreams amid the worst days of the pandemic. The Christmas livestream allowed fans to enjoy the beloved traditions of the show from the comfort and safety of their own homes. This year, Koz and Friends are elated to be back at many of their favorite venues, performing live for audiences on the 2021 tour. After the challenges of 2020, there’s never been a time when “we need a little Christmas” more than this year.  

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Dave Koz and Friends announce the 26th anniversary edition of the longest-running Jazz-based Christmas tour. Koz and Friends will perform fresh renditions of timeless Christmas classics – as well as a Chanukah medley – and hits from their respective catalogues. The tour reunites Koz with long-time musical partner guitarist-singer Jonathan Butler, and features saxophonist-flutist Marcus Anderson and vocalist Rebecca Jade. The tour also introduces musical prodigy Justin-Lee Schultz, a 16-year old pianist-guitarist-vocalist and social media sensation.    

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David Sanborn, saxophone star of jazz fusion, dies at 78

He sold millions of albums, won six Grammys and played with a range of musical greats from Miles Davis to the Rolling Stones.

David Sanborn, a musical chameleon whose wailing alto saxophone helped shape the sound of jazz fusion in the 1970s and ’80s, as he sold millions of albums while adding his touch to the performances of dozens of musical stars from Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins to the Rolling Stones, David Bowie and Linda Ronstadt, died May 12 at his home in Tarrytown, N.Y. He was 78.

Statements on his website and social media platforms said he had complications from prostate cancer, which he had battled since 2018.

Mr. Sanborn, who won six Grammy Awards throughout a six-decade career, began as a sideman working in St. Louis blues and jazz clubs before appearing at the 1969 Woodstock music festival in Upstate New York as a member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

By the early 1970s, he was a mainstay at recording sessions with high-profile musicians, playing memorable improvised saxophone solos on Bowie’s “ Young Americans ,” Paul Simon’s “ Still Crazy After All These Years ,” James Taylor’s “ How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved by You) ” (all from 1975) and Ronstadt’s 1978 recording of Smokey Robinson’s “Ooo Baby Baby” (spelled “Ooh Baby Baby” on Ronstadt’s album “Living in the USA.”) He toured with Taylor, the Stones and Stevie Wonder.

Effortlessly sliding from pop to rhythm-and-blues to jazz, Mr. Sanborn was simultaneously performing in a group led by Gil Evans, who had been an influential jazz arranger and bandleader since the 1940s.

“I don't think I’m particularly innovative, and I’m not sure I’m even a jazz player as such,” Mr. Sanborn told the Chicago Tribune in 1989. “I just have a sound and a style that seem to connect with a lot of people.”

That sound was bright, strong and piercing, often pitched in the upper register of the alto saxophone. (He also occasionally played the smaller soprano saxophone.)

“When you’re playing with four other horns and an electric guitar, you’ve got to cut through it and just play loud,” he told Newsday.

In 1975, he released the first of his 25 solo albums, “Taking Off,” which appeared during the emergence of jazz fusion, an electrified hybrid form of jazz and rhythm and blues perfectly suited to Mr. Sanborn’s style. Throughout the 1980s and ’90s, his distinctive tone became a mainstay on so-called “smooth jazz” radio stations, predating other alto and soprano saxophonists, including Kenny G, Dave Koz and Najee.

Mr. Sanborn’s breakthrough 1980 album, “ Hideaway ,” sold more than 500,000 copies and was on the R&B charts for more than a year. His follow-up album, “Voyeur,” released in 1981, earned Mr. Sanborn his first Grammy, for best instrumental R&B performance.

His 1986 recording with keyboard player Bob James, “The Other Side,” went platinum, with sales topping 1 million, and won the Grammy for best jazz fusion performance.

Later recordings included the romantic “ Pearls ” (1995), in which he played ballads over lush string arrangements by Johnny Mandel . Mr. Sanborn explored elements of hip-hop on 1992’s “Upfront,” which Entertainment Weekly reviewer Josef Woodard called a “funkified, ear-twisting musical mix in which hip-hop manners meet Booker T. and James Brown … In his own deceptively modest way, David Sanborn is doing his part in expanding vocabularies by weaving together the disparate threads of great American night music.”

Critics were not always so appreciative of his work. For years, purists complained that Mr. Sanborn’s style was not worthy of the label “jazz.”

“I don’t have any control over what people call my music,” he told the Christian Science Monitor in 1991. “I don't call it jazz; I never have and I never will. Because I don't come from that tradition of the music that traces from Louis Armstrong up to the present day. I study it, and I can affect certain elements of jazz in my playing, but the rhythmic basis of my music is primarily funk music.”

While recording albums and appearing in concert in the 1980s, Mr. Sanborn broadened his appeal with appearances on television, first as a member of the “Saturday Night Live” band and later in regular appearances with Paul Shaffer’s band on David Letterman’s late-night talk show . Mr. Sanborn wrote for and performed on the soundtracks of the “Lethal Weapon” films.

Beginning in 1986, Mr. Sanborn hosted a syndicated radio program, “The Jazz Show,” which introduced classic and modern jazz to audiences raised on rock music.

From 1988 to 1990, he had a late-night television show, originally called “Sunday Night” and later “Night Music,” which became a niche favorite among music lovers. On the show, Mr. Sanborn shared the stage with an eclectic mix of musicians, including Eric Clapton, Dizzy Gillespie, Lou Reed, Sonic Youth and Curtis Mayfield. One night, jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, disco-funk band Was (Not Was) and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen were all performing together with Mr. Sanborn.

“Would you label it jazz? Folk?” Mr. Sanborn said. “I don’t know — it’s music!”

‘That music had everything’

David William Sanborn was born on July 30, 1945, in Tampa, where his father was stationed while serving in the military. He grew up in Kirkwood, Mo., outside St. Louis. His father was an advertising executive, and his mother was a homemaker.

At 3, young David was stricken with polio and spent a year in an iron lung. He had to relearn how to walk and had other long-term effects from the disease. A doctor suggested that playing the saxophone might help strengthen his lungs. (Because of the effects of polio, Mr. Sanborn had to hold his horn in a certain way, with his head tilted slightly to the left. Younger musicians sometimes imitated his stance without knowing its origins.)

He was 11 when his father took him to hear Ray Charles. One of Charles’s band members, alto saxophonist Hank Crawford, had a formative influence on Mr. Sanborn’s musical approach.

“That music had everything to me,” Mr. Sanborn said in the Monitor interview. “It had elements of bebop, gospel, rhythm-and-blues; it was earthy, popular, soulful.”

By 14, Mr. Sanborn was sitting in with blues greats Little Milton and Albert King.

Later, he played with musicians including jazz trumpeter Lester Bowie and saxophonists and Julius Hemphill and Oliver Lake, who became key figures in the jazz avant-garde. In countless midnight-to-5 a.m. gigs, they taught him a lasting lesson about music.

“My life would be different if all those people hadn’t been so nonjudgmental about music,” Mr. Sanborn told the Los Angeles Times in 1996. “Lester could do an outside jazz gig, then play with the Four Tops, then do circus-band music, then do gospel music. … Good music was good music. Why not do it all?”

After attending Northwestern University and the University of Iowa, Mr. Sanborn moved to California in the mid-1960s and joined the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, an important blues revival group of the era. At the Woodstock festival, the Butterfield band went onstage just before Jimi Hendrix.

In his highflying years in the 1970s with the Stones, David Bowie and other rock stars, Mr. Sanborn said he developed a dependence on drugs and alcohol.

“Looking back, it was like one long party, with the drugs and booze flowing freely all the time,” he told the Tribune in 1989. Finally, he asked himself, “Do I get high, or concentrate on my music?” In 1982, Mr. Sanborn gave up drugs, alcohol and even coffee.

Survivors include his third wife, Alice Soyer, and a son from his first marriage.

During the pandemic, Mr. Sanborn gave master lessons on Zoom and began an interview show for WBGO-FM radio in New Jersey. He resumed touring and had dates booked well into 2025.

“To be able to play live in front of an audience,” Mr. Sanborn told the Tucson Weekly in 2020, “where you’re giving something to them and they’re giving something to you, there’s nothing like it. … It’s the way you feel alive.”