Dave Koz Brings SANTA KOZ Christmas Concert to PlayhouseSquare Tonight

It wouldn't be Christmas at PlayhouseSquare without "Santa Koz" coming to jazz up the holiday. Celebrating both his #1 charted new album and the 17th anniversary of his annual Christmas tours, multi-GRAMMY nominee and saxophonist extraordinaire DAVE KOZ brings his "Dave Koz & Friends Christmas Tour 2014" to PlayhouseSquare's Connor Palace for one 7:30 pm show, tonight, December 12.

The concert will feature three special guests: Jonathan Butler, who has earned accolades in the R&B, contemporary jazz and gospel fields, plus two artists who are new to the run -- GRAMMY-winning singer-songwriter Christopher Cross, known for such Top 10 hits as "Sailing," "Ride Like the Wind" and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)," and Soul Train award winner/GRAMMY nominee Maysa, who has released 10 solo albums and collaborated with everyone from Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan to Incognito and Angela Bofill.

The high-energy holiday show features the quartet's fresh takes on holiday classics and selections that beautifully capture the spirit of the season, including song's from Dave's new Concord Records album Dave Koz & Friends: The 25th of December (which is charted at #1 on Billboard's Current Contemporary Jazz Chart.)

This is Dave's seventh album to top the chart, and the album's first single "All You Need Is Love," has climbed into the Top 5 of Billboard's Smooth Jazz Songs chart.

*** Koz and Friends are the first artists to take this classic Beatles' song into the Top 10 of any Billboard chart since the Fab Four's Hot 100 run in 1967! The new all-star rendition features Koz with Eric Benet, Johnny Mathis, Heathelr Headley, Richard Marx, Jonathan Butler, Maysa, BeBe WInans, Gloria Estefan and Stevie Wonder.

Dave also continues to flex his mass-communications muscles as hosts the syndicated Dave Koz Radio Show -now in its 20th year and airing in approximately 50 markets. In the spring of 2014, he launched "The Dave Koz Lounge," which airs Sundays on SiriusXM (Satellite radio), and "Dave Koz & Friends Radio," a 24-hour-a-day radio channel personally curated by Dave on SKY.FM Radio & JAZZRADIO.com multichannel internet radio services.

As an entrepreneur, Koz founded Rendezvous Entertainment. He recently joined forces with Cary Hardwick and Laurie Sisneros (partners and owners of Spaghettini in Seal Beach, CA.), to open a new restaurant/live music venue in the heart of Beverly Hills' new restaurant row. Spaghettini and The Dave Koz Lounge is set to open shortly..

As a philanthropist, Koz has served for 20 years as global ambassador for the Starlight Children's Foundation Koz, an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for children with chronic and life-threatening illnesses and life-altering injuries.. With KOZ Wines, founded in 2009, he found another way to help Starlight continue its vital mission. Dave is donating all his proceeds from KOZ Wines to Starlight. The wines are available at Whole Foods Markets and other retailers and during select periods at California Pizza Kitchen. Two new wines from Koz's partnership with premium Santa Barbara winemaker Terravant picked up Gold and Best of Class awards in the 2014 Los Angeles International Wine Competition

Koz completed a four-year term on the GRAMMY Foundation Artists Committee and has served as National Trustee for the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS).

For more information, visit www.davekoz.com. Tickets for the December 12th Dave Koz & Friends Christmas Tour at PlayhouseSquare are on sale at the Ticket Office, 216-241-6000 or at playhousesquare.org. Prices are: $65; $50, $35 & $10 Smart Seats.

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