.Dave Koz and Friends Christmas Tour in San Jose

Dec 19, 2023

Dave Koz in San Jose — A JAZZY SAX-MAS: A night of Christmas classics to make you snap your fingers and tap your feet (Photo Credit: Colin Peck)

Humanitarian, entrepreneur and saxophone extraordinaire Dave Koz leads the country’s longest-running jazz-based Christmas tour. This year, the nine-time Grammy nominee is celebrating the tour’s 26th anniversary, and the cast joining him on the month-long holiday fete is more brightly star-studded than ever. Foremost among them is longtime collaborator Jonathan Butler, who features on a groovy version of “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” (punctuated by African chanting, no less) on Koz’s 2019 holiday album, Gifts of the Season. This year, these seasoned performers have a prodigy joining them on the road: Justin-Lee Schultz, the 16-year-old South African social media sensation.

Dave Koz and Friends Christmas Tour

Thurs, 8pm, $60

San Jose Civic, San Jose

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Addie Mahmassani https://www.addiemahmassani.com/

Addie Mahmassani is a poet based in Santa Cruz. She holds a PhD in American Studies from Rutgers University-Newark and is currently an MFA student in creative writing at San Jose State University. There, she is a Teaching Associate as well as the lead poetry editor of Reed Magazine, California's oldest literary journal. She also surfs, sings and loves a part-sheepdog named Lou.