Having started his career back in 1986, at the age of 23, he was quick to make a name for himself. Right out of high school, he was picked up as a member of Bobby Caldwell’s tour, and for the rest of the 1980s, he served as a session musician in several bands, toured with artists such as Jeff Lorber & Richard Marx, and played in the house band of CBS’ short-lived The Pat Sajak Show, with Tom Scott as band leader.

In 2006, Koz was selected to host a syndicated afternoon show for Broadcast Architecture’s new Smooth Jazz Network. The show, based in Los Angeles, is broadcast on other Smooth Jazz stations across the country. Koz and Ramsey Lewis are the only two Smooth Jazz personalities to host two different syndicated shows during the week.

Over the course of his 22 year career in the scene, the saxophonist has earned himself six Grammy nominations. Having recorded with Capitol Records as well as with his own label Rendezvous Entertainment, he has racked up an amazing fourteen albums, along with numerous singles.

His latest release, Greatest Hits, marks an amazing milestone in his career and shows that his career is still moving along. Most fans of smooth jazz have heard the name Dave Koz, but he is also recognized by many more contemporary and traditionalist jazz musicians. This is testimony to his talent and great success in the scene.

To have a listen to some of his Greatest Hits album,
just click on the mp3 player to the left.

Recommended Albums:

Memories of a Winter’s Night (2007)
At the Movies (2007)
Best of Dave Koz (2006)

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Coltrane formed his first group, a quartet, in 1960. After moving through different personnel including Steve Kuhn, Pete LaRoca, and Billy Higgins, the lineup stabilized in the fall with pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Steve Davis, and drummer Elvin Jones. Tyner, from Philadelphia, had been a friend of Coltrane’s for some years and the two men long had an understanding that the pianist would join Coltrane when Tyner felt ready for the exposure of regularly working with him.

Still with Atlantic Records, for whom he had recorded Giant Steps, his first record with his new group was also his debut playing the soprano saxophone, the hugely successful My Favorite Things. Around the end of his tenure with Davis, Coltrane had begun playing soprano saxophone, an unconventional move considering the instrument’s near obsolescence in jazz at the time. His interest in the straight saxophone most likely arose from his admiration for Sidney Bechet and the work of his contemporary, Steve Lacy, even though Miles Davis claimed to have given Coltrane his first soprano saxophone.

[Source: Wikipedia.org]

John Coltrane

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