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This Christmas Will Be A Very Special Christmas For Jonathan Butler

This Christmas Will Be A Very Special Christmas For Jonathan Butler

Singer-songwriter-guitarist will release “Merry Christmas To You” on October 1 and embark upon the Dave Koz & Friends Christmas Tour this holiday season. Sherman Oaks, CA: Santa Claus has a special treat to stuff in the stockings of all the good Jonathan Butler fans this Christmas: the first Christmas album by the two-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter-guitarist. Butler ...

News: Festival

Saluting Music Legends With The Formation Of The SiriusXM Watercolors Jazz Hall Of Fame

Saluting Music Legends With The Formation Of The SiriusXM Watercolors Jazz Hall Of Fame

David Sanborn, Earl Klugh and Grover Washington Jr. are the first artists slated for induction during a ceremony aboard The Smooth Jazz Cruise in October St. Louis, MO: Young musicians fantasize about one day being a hall of famer yet contemporary jazz artists were left only to dream. Until now. SiriusXM’s Watercolors, the leading satellite radio ...

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News: Festival

Smooth Jazz Summer Nights at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia

This season of Smooth Jazz Summer Nights Concerts on the Great Plaza at Penn’s Landing celebrates the nation’s best and brightest jazz performers. An evening summer breeze, a beautiful setting, the sounds of horns, smooth vocals, and heart pounding percussions will make these concerts a summertime must-do event. This season’s power-packed lineup will grace the stage ...

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Got To Get You Into My Life

Featuring the music of Dave Koz
Duration: 3:52

From the release "Summer Horns" SAXOPHONIST DAVE KOZ TURNS UP THE HEAT WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM HIS FRIENDS: GERALD ALBRIGHT, RICHARD ELLIOT AND MINDI ABAIR
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Article: Extended Analysis

Dave Koz and Friends: Summer Horns

Read "Dave Koz and Friends: Summer Horns" reviewed by Jeff Winbush


The idea of a quartet of top smooth jazz saxophonists gathering for a super-session must have seemed like a great idea to Dave Koz. Why not invite Gerald Albright, Mindi Abair and Richard Elliot to join him for a sax summit? Hang out, play some together, have some laughs. It'll be fun. What could possibly go ...

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Article: Album Review

Brian Simpson: Just What You Need

Read "Just What You Need" reviewed by Jeff Winbush


The raison d'être behind Brian Simpson's Just What You Need is not as audacious as to reshape jazz as we know it, but to provide some easy listening while we're waiting. The ambitions here are a bit more modest as Simpson, who is best known as Dave Koz's bandleader, brings together an accomplished crew of studio ...

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Article: Interview

Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Setting the Record Straight

Read "Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Setting the Record Straight" reviewed by Troy Collins


Mostly Other People Do the Killing is frequently typecast as one of today's most humorously irreverent young jazz groups, based in no small part on their provocative name, which was inspired by a quote attributed to inventor Leon Theremin--a survivor of the Soviet gulag who exonerated Stalin because “mostly other people did the killing." Bassist and ...

News: Recording

Rick Braun Trumpets The Holidays

Rick Braun Trumpets The Holidays

“Swingin’ In The Snow” showcases a stellar cast on timeless seasonal classics with album sales benefiting the Autism Society of America Sherman Oaks, CA: As cool as a winter’s eve, as warm as a holiday dinner with loved ones, and as beautiful as an exquisitely ornamented Christmas tree , Rick Braun’s “Swingin’ In The Snow” is ...

News: Performance / Tour

Dave Koz Set To Perform On August 10th As Part Of The Paramount Jazz Series

Dave Koz Set To Perform On August 10th As Part Of The Paramount Jazz Series

"BeBe and I have been friends for 20 years, but this is the first time we've toured together and I'm so excited," says Koz. “We've unofficially dubbed it 'The Brothers From Another Mother' tour because superficially we couldn't be more different, but we actually have so much in common." “I've said no for years to touring, ...

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Article: Big Band Report

June Means Jazz as Festivals Flourish

Read "June Means Jazz as Festivals Flourish" reviewed by Jack Bowers


June, as always, is a harbinger of exciting things to come as the jazz festival season springs forth in earnest, causing even the most ardent couch potatoes to bestir themselves and start perusing the calendar to locate interesting events in their neck of the woods. Here in New Mexico, the “outdoor" season comes to life with ...


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