Instrumental jazz musician Dave Koz brings his tour Dave Koz & Mates: Summer time Horns to Santa Barbara’s Lobero Theatre on Saturday, September 16. This summer time alone, the nine-time Grammy nominee has graced levels around the globe together with his iconic type of summertime feel-good music. Now, for the final leg of his summer time tour, Koz returns to the place all of it started.
“It’s exhausting to not have the place you might be and the place you’re raised form of seep into the music that you simply make,” Koz mentioned. Born and raised within the San Fernando Valley, Koz talked to me about rising up in Southern California, and its relationship to his musical journey. “I used to be coping with being homosexual and never having a capability to get that out,” he mentioned. “And so the saxophone simply turned the car for me to precise quite a lot of the issues that I didn’t have phrases for.” This need for expression would result in the beginnings of a profession as a musician, when after school Koz discovered a gig taking part in with musician Bobby Caldwell’s band in Los Angeles. “The following factor I knew, I used to be on the stage with him, and we had been taking part in in entrance of the who’s who of L.A.” For Koz, this opened the door to the world of music.
Since his early gigs, Dave Koz has earned success, reward, and loads of efficiency expertise. He talked in regards to the particular expertise of taking part in on the Hollywood Bowl — a venue Koz has loved acting at ten instances. “My mother and pa used to take my brother and sister and I to the Hollywood Bowl numerous instances after we had been rising up,” he mentioned. “I bear in mind the primary time that I ever performed there. My mother and pa got here, and it was a full circle expertise.” For Koz, taking the stage on the Hollywood Bowl by no means will get previous regardless of how typically he does it. “There’s just one feeling higher, and that’s leaving the stage on the finish,” he joked. “The entire week main as much as it, I used to be only a bag of nerves.”
Koz locations a lot significance on performances as a result of, for him, the music involves life taking part in stay on stage. Because of this, Koz feels the labels of “easy” or “modern jazz” misrepresent instrumental music, these descriptors being genres of polished radio music tradition. “You recognize, most people who’ve been doing this for a very long time, below the sleek jazz banner, are actually unimaginable stay performers who throw every part on the music to create these very thrilling moments on stage.”
Eric Darius (left) and Sweet Dulfer | Credit score: Courtesy
For the 2023 tour of Summer time Horns, Koz is joined by his band, which incorporates two further saxophonists round which the live performance is centered. Eric Darius, who just lately launched his album Breakin’ Through, “represents a bit of bit extra of the younger affect of instrumentalists and saxophone gamers,” Koz mentioned, juxtaposing him with the veteran performer Sweet Dulfer. “She’s had worldwide hits, individuals all around the world know her,” mentioned Koz. “If you get three individuals taking part in along with nice preparations and a killer band behind you, it’s simply stuffed with vitality, it’s lively.”
Dave Koz & Mates play on the Lobero Theatre on Saturday, September 16 at 8 p.m. For extra info see lobero.org.
