Spotlight: Dave Koz

September 22, 2009 When saxophonist Dave Koz is presented with his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Tuesday, it will be in honor of his accomplishments as one of the defining artists of the "smooth jazz" movement. [...] while on one level he's still all about the music, he's also a virtual one-man conglomerate, with two national radio shows, his own line of wines and even a Dave Koz-branded ocean cruise, as The Hollywood Reporter's Todd Longwell recently found out. Playing in my brother's band and doing fraternity parties and bar mitzvahs and stuff like that, it never dawned on me that it was possible to make it a career.

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