LOS ANGELES (Capitol Records/Smooth Jazz Radio) - Hot on the heels of another successful Smooth Summer Night Tour, saxophonist
Dave Koz announces the eighth annual Smooth Jazz Christmas Tour. Guitarist Norman Brown, keyboardist
Brian Culbertson and vocalist
Brenda Russell will be joining Koz on the road this holiday season. The 21-city tour kicks off in Ft. Lauderdale, FL on November 26th (the day after Thanksgiving) and concludes on December 22nd in Long Beach, CA.
Meanwhile Capitol Records, Koz's longtime label, will take "Let It Free" to radio on September 13th. "Let It Free" is the third single from Saxophonic, Koz's current album. Both "Honey-Dipped" and "All I See Is You," the two previous singles, had lengthy runs atop the Smooth Jazz radio chart. "Honey-Dipped" spent eight weeks at #1, while "All I See Is You" was #1 for 10 consecutive weeks.
Koz, who hosts a morning radio show on "The Wave" in Los Angeles and a nationally syndicated weekly smooth jazz radio show, is currently working on Golden Slumbers II: A Father's Love, the follow-up to 2002's Grammy-nominated Golden Slumbers, which was the first release from Rendezvous Entertainment, an independent label Dave co-founded. Marveling at Dave's many endeavors, the San Francisco Chronicle dubbed him a "multimillion-selling-one-man brand."
Koz recently joined a host of smooth jazz stars paying tribute to legendary R&B vocalist Luther Vandross on Forever, For Always, For Luther. The album, released last month, will raise funds for diabetes care and research. (Vandross guested on Koz's 1999 release, The Dance, which spent over 100 weeks on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz chart.)
2004 has been another stellar year for Koz. He was honored with a third consecutive Grammy nomination in the "Best Pop Instrumental Performance" category and his second NAACP Image Award nomination. But it's an honor of a different nature that's bound to have audiences talking: Dave, who just came out in an interview with The Advocate this past spring, was recently named one of People Magazine's "50 Hottest Bachelors." Bring on the mistletoe!
Dave Koz & Friends Smooth Jazz Christmas Tour:
11/26 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Broward Center For the Performing Arts
11/27 Melbourne, FL Maxwell C. King Center For Performing Arts
11/29 Naples, FL Philharmonic Center For The Arts
11/30 Clearwater, FL Ruth Eckerd Hall
12/1 New Orleans, LA Orpheum Theatre?
12/2 Washington, DC DAR Constitution Hall
12/3 Baltimore, MD Lyric Opera House
12/4 Philadelphia, PA Tower Theatre
12/5 Tom Rivers, NJ The Ritacco Center
12/8 San Antonio, TX Majestic Theatre
12/9 Palm Springs, CA McCallum Theatre
12/10 San Francisco, CA Nob Hill Masonic Center
12/11 Los Angeles, CA Kodak Theatre
12/12 Dallas, TX Nokia Theatre
12/14 Cleveland, OH Playhouse Square Center
12/15 Cincinnati, OH Taft Theatre
12/16 Detroit, MI Detroit Opera House
12/17, 18 Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre
12/19 Columbus, OH Palace Theatre
12/21 San Diego, CA Symphony Hall
12/22 Long Beach, CA Long Beach Terrace Theatre
