This Christmas jazz album has a wide variety of generally enjoyable performances by 16 different groups. High points include a funny version of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" by singers Dianne Reeves and Lou Rawls, a Herbie Hancock-Eliane Elias piano duet on "I'll Be Home for Christmas," and Holly Cole's "Christmas Blues." The other performers include ...
Fans of saxophonist Dave Koz from either his days playing EWI with the Rippingtons or his tours with lookalike pop star Richard Marx waited a long few years for this explosive debut, and Koz certainly delivers the goods with an absolutely smashing Sanborn-esque display of chops and seduction. The Marx effect is a definite plus, as Koz does wonders ...
Saxophonist Dave Koz has become one of the most successful and beloved instrumentalists of his time, and helped establish smooth jazz as a musical force to be reckoned with. His career catapulted with 1993's Lucky Man, one of Koz' slickest and most commercial releases (which is not a bad thing by any means) to date. The album has an undeniably ...
Since 1997, the Dave Koz & Friends Christmas Tour has evolved from a handful of concerts by the beloved saxman and pianist David Benoit to a 30-plus-city national phenomenon also featuring fellow genre all-stars Peter White and Rick Braun and singer Brenda Russell. The original tour came in support of his popular 1997 seasonal offering December ...
Since his self-titled 1990 smash debut, Dave Koz has been one of smooth jazz's greatest musicians. The saxman scored big on the radio and in retail even when he turned away from his established R&B/pop sound on 1996's Off the Beaten Path, which was done with more acoustic instruments. The Dance brings him back to the hard-hitting R&B funk sounds ...
Lush, heartfelt, and elegant, At the Movies finds smooth jazz saxophonist Dave Koz celebrating his favorite movie themes. Featured here are such classic movie melodies as "Over the Rainbow," "The Shadow of Your Smile," and "The Pink Panther" as well as more contemporary songs like "A Whole New World" and the main theme from Schindler's List. ...
Festival of Light, Vol. 2 is an equally satisfying follow-up to the groundbreaking Hanukkah holiday compilation, capturing traditional and non-traditional musical takes on the season ranging from humorous and celebratory to ethereal, solemn, and spiritual. The generally subdued musical feel is broken at times by more boisterous offerings from the ...
From trends visible in the 2000s, smooth jazz fans couldn't get enough of three things: all-star cruises, all-star summer tours, and big holiday tour extravaganzas. In 2006, the only year since 1997 that genre superstar Dave Koz didn't traverse the country for Christmas, there were three other tours out there. As if to say, "I'm back, now deck ...
Koz's holiday effort December Makes Me Feel This Way is highlighted by a pair of original compositions, the title track (co-authored by Alan Rich and Judd Friedman) and a celebration of Channukah titled "Eight Candles." In addition to traditional fare like "Sleigh Ride," "Winter Wonderland" and "The Little Drummer Boy," the collection also ...
This likeable, ultra funky, and melodic saxman is one of the few smooth jazz performers whose consistent gold sales status, and omnipresence in the genre (including DJ'ing a morning show at one of the country's top stations, and two annual tours) makes him a crossover superstar. But his breakneck multi-media schedule is only part of the reason he ...
NBC Celebrity Christmas compiles a number of holiday songs culled from various NBC-aired television shows. Surprisingly, the songs are actually sung by the actual actors and actresses, and even more surprisingly, these performances are often impressive and wholehearted. Some examples of what to expect are Sean Hayes teaming with Dave Koz for "The ...
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Catherine Cook (vocals), Dave Koz (sax), David Harper (vocals), David Okerland (vocals), Frederica Von Stade (vocals), Frederick Matthews (vocals), Gary Rideout (vocals), Jay Morris (vocals), Jim Cromm (vocals), Michael Thompson (guitar)
A curious compilation of lite-jazz and quiet storm favorites, Smooth Sounds is all over the musical map -- alongside more predictable inclusions like George Benson's "Breezin'" and Vanessa Williams' "Save the Best for Last" are oddball selections like the themes to Seinfeld and St. Elsewhere. A real grab bag. ~ Raymond McKinney, All Music Guide
Fans of smooth jazz who have been into the music since its inception forget to realize how intimidating it is for those just getting into it to get acquainted with all the joys -- and all the artists -- the genre has to offer. There have been a handful of multi-artist samplers in the past, but usually these have been released by one label to ...
To say that saxophonist and composer Dave Koz knows his audience and how the music business works would be an understatement, and this greatest-hits set is a case in point. Koz has been wildly successful since the very beginning. Strong evidence is that he has been with Capitol Records since his 1990 debut album. Another case in point is that he ...
EMI-Capitol Special Markets' In the Mood is a weird mix of contemporary jazz, fusion, new acoustic, contemporary instrumental, and smooth jazz tracks. All ten tracks are intended to evoke a stylish, mellow, romantic mood, but the very fact that McCoy Tyner, Leo Kottke, Dave Koz, Billy Joe Walker, Jr., Najee, Ronnie Laws and the Deele are on the ...
The Pop installment in Rhino's Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz series concentrates on jazzy pop-crossover hits and tracks popular on smooth jazz radio. Complaints from jazz purists regarding simplicity aside, the main problem with the compilation is that it covers too large a span of time -- the first six tracks date from the '60s and '70s, while ...
WJJZ 106.2 Smooth Jazz Sampler Volume 6 collects some of the radio station's most requested smooth jazz hits, including tracks from Boney James, Grover Washington, Jr., David Benoit, Kenny G and George Benson. The album benefits Philadelphia charities like the city's chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and the Jazz In The Schools program. ...
Dave Koz's complete 180 twist Off the Beaten Path is full-fledged musical proof that digging deep and exposing certain vulnerabilities can yield dead-on results. The saxman's first two hits (including the gold "Lucky Man") were solid pop/funk gems, but heavy on the slick, urban-tinged production machinery. If it ain't broke, don't fix it? How ...
This collection of smooth jazz includes tracks by Ramsey Lewis, Dave Grusin, Vanessa Williams, Dave Koz, Kenny G. and George Benson. ~ Keith Farley, All Music Guide
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