★★★★★
Contemporary jazz saxophone icon Dave Koz has recently released his first CD for the Concord Music Group entitled Hello Tomorrow. Two decades of recording and touring extensively (on many occasions billed as "Dave Koz and Friends") has helped lay the requisite groundwork for this superb masterpiece...
- www.jazzreview.com
2011-01-10
★★★★★
The smoove, smoove easy-listening ear lube of "jazz" sax man Dave Koz. This makes me feel like Santa just came down my chimney.
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
The name Dave Koz is synonymous with his craft. He is a fixture within the contemporary jazz community, and deservedly so. Koz is quite occupied as he is very much in demand. He is a world renowned artist whose career has spanned twenty years and is, even now, advancing full steam ahead...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Track Listing: Dave Koz: alto saxophone; Jeff Lorber: keyboards; Nathan East: bass; Paulinho da Costa: percussion; Greg Phillinganes: piano; Lenny Castro: percussion; Phil Perry, Zelma Davis, Charles Pettigrew: vocals. Style: Straightahead/Mainstream Dave Koz joins forces with a very talented group of musicians to bring us "Lucky Man." The all-star band includes Nathan East on bass, Robben Ford on guitar, Jeff Lorber on keyboards and Paul Jackson Junior...
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2009-06-05
★★★★★
Style: Contemporary/Smooth Popular saxophonist Dave Koz has attempted to veer "off the beaten path" with this release; in other words, to create something that goes beyond the current "smooth jazz" formula which so many contemporary saxophonists have embraced. For this, he is to be commended. Overall, it's a successful effort. He keeps one foot solidly planted on contemporary ground, but tests some interesting new waters with his other foot...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2009-06-05
★★★★★
Track Listing: Over the Rainbow; Moon River; As Time Goes By: Somewhere; The Shadow of Your Smile; The Pink Panther; The Way We Were; The Summer Knows; It Might Be You; Cinema Paradiso Suite; A Whole New World; Schindler's List; It Might Be You (instrumental); The Shadow of Your Smile (instrumental). Personnel: Dave Koz: saxophones; Chris Botti: trumpet; Peter White: guitar; Barry Manilow: vocals (2); Anita Baker: vocals (4); Johnny Mathis: vocals (5); Vanessa Williams: vocals (7); India...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2009-06-05
★★★★★
Track Listing: Honey-dipped; Love Changes Everything; All I See Is You; Just To Be Next to You; Let it Free; Undeniable; Saxophonic (Come On Up); Definition of Beautiful; Sound of the Underground; Only Tomorrow Knows; I Believe; A View From Above; One Last Thing...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2009-06-05
★★★★★
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...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
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...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27