In a career that spans twenty years and a dozen albums, sax­o­phon­ist Dave Koz has estab­lished him­self as one of the most promi­nent fig­ures in con­tem­po­rary music. But as note­wor­thy as his body of recorded work and as enter­tain­ing his live per­for­mances and other past accom­plish­ments might be, Koz finds him­self in an era of dra­matic and sweep­ing change where every­thing once taken for granted is sud­denly up for grabs. For Koz – and for all of us in this new cen­tury – it’s a new day, full of new chal­lenges and oppor­tu­ni­ties, and new rules that are still being written.
Koz, an eight-time Grammy nom­i­nee, embraces this era of change – and even the uncer­tainty that comes with it – on Hello Tomor­row, his first album for Con­cord Records. Released on Octo­ber 12, 2010, Hello Tomor­row debuted at No. 1 on both Billboard’s Top Con­tem­po­rary Jazz Albums chart and iTunes’ Jazz Album chart and was named the “Best Smooth Jazz Album of 2010” by iTunes. Hailed as “an event record” by The New York Times and nom­i­nated for a Grammy, it has already yielded two No. 1 sin­gles: “Put The Top Down,” which spent 18 weeks at No. 1 on the Medi­a­base Smooth A/C chart (the longest stint at No. 1 of any of Koz’s chart-topping hits) and “Anything’s Pos­si­ble.”