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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A popular jazz-based Christmas tour is making its way to Columbus on Saturday. For the 27th year in a row, Grammy-nominated saxophonist Dave Koz and four artists will set out for the "Dave Koz and ...

Saxophonist Dave Koz, who’s released eight Christmas albums, will bring his annual Christmas tour to Connor Palace Theatre on Sunday, Dec. 8, to celebrate the tour’s 27th anniversary. This year, the ...

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 ...

Dave Koz is looking at this 27th annual holiday tour as an opportunity to heal — or at least take a break from the turmoil of the previous 11 months. “We’ve been through an awful lot these last ...

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 ...

To contemporary jazz hitmaker Dave Koz, the concert and culinary worlds have plenty in common. "There's a lot of correlation between music and being in a kitchen making food," he said. "A lot of it is ...