Jazz Articles about Dan Kozar

About Dan Kozar

Album Review

Ontario-native Dan Kozar plays, for lack of a better description, a nylon-string classical guitar. This fact alone should alert you that you are in for a mellow time. On that score, Kozar does not disappoint, but at the same time, you should not expect a sleeper of a recording. Quite the contrary...

Borne in Weland, Dan Kozar was encouraged from an early age by his mandolinist father to learn to read and play music and this ...

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Album Review

Dan Kozar: I Remember You

Read "I Remember You" reviewed by Geannine Reid

by Geannine Reid
August 1, 2004

Canadian guitarist Dan Kozar's first release, entitled I Remember You, creates a vivid fabric of lyrical beauty within the confines of solo guitar. Kozar, a lifelong resident of Welland, Ontario, began his pursuit to become a professional guitarist at age 12. In his formative years, Kozar gained his education on the bandstand, at Eastman School of Music Summer Jazz Studies, and at the Banff School of Fine Arts, where he was mentored by Canadian jazz guitar legend Ed Bickert.