Dave Koz's Ultimate Christmas Collection, Featuring 18 Holiday Classics, is Out Today

Dave Koz's Ultimate Christmas Collection, Featuring 18 Holiday Classics, is Out Today

Dave Koz and Friends Christmas Tour 2011 With Special Guests Rick Braun, Jonathan Butler and Candy Dulfer Launches November 25

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Oct. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ultimate Christmas, featuring 18 holiday songs performed by Dave Koz, was released today by Capitol/EMI. The collection features the six-time GRAMMY® Award nominee's renditions of such perennial holiday classics as "The Christmas Song," "Winter Wonderland," "Deck The Halls," "O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree)" and "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" plus "White Christmas" featuring Kelly Sweet and "Please Come Home for Christmas" featuring Kimberley Locke. The songs were hand-picked from Dave's three previous holiday albums - December Makes Me Feel This Way, A Smooth Jazz Christmas and Memories of a Winter's Night.Koz also recorded two brand new instrumentals for Ultimate Christmas: "Welcoming the Season (Prelude)" and "Welcoming the New Year (Coda)."

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Dave Koz and Friends Christmas Tour 2011 kicks off on November 25th (the day after Thanksgiving) at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center in Atlanta, GA. Trumpeter/composer/producer Rick Braun, South African singer/guitarist Jonathan Butler and Dutch saxophone star Candy Dulfer will join Koz for the 14th anniversary of the tour. The four will perform hits from their respective catalogues and jam on new arrangements of holiday favorites. See below for itinerary.

"[Koz] works extremely hard at engaging his audience. His showmanship, in fact, is impeccable," said The Times of London. The Palm Beach Post called last year's Christmas tour "downright uplifting and energizing" while the El Paso Times observed: ""El Paso's love affair with Dave Koz, and his with us, showed no signs of letting up...as Koz and his latest touring companions lit up the Plaza Theatre like a Christmas tree."

Dave's latest studio album, 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, it features "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), the Top 5 hit "Start All Over Again" featuring vocalist Dana Glover and Dave's version of the Burt Bacharach-Hal David classic "This Guy's In Love With You," which hit No. 1 on theBreakouts for Hot Dance Club Play chart. "Anything's Possible," Koz's latest single, was also a #1 hit record.

Track listing - Ultimate Christmas

1. Welcoming the Season (Prelude)
2. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
3. The Christmas Song
4. Sleigh Ride
5. White Christmas
6. Winter Wonderland
7. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
8. Little Drummer Boy
9. Please Come Home For Christmas
10. Silver Bells
11. Eight Candles (A Song For Hanukkah)
12. Deck the Halls
13. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
14. O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree)
15. Silent Night
16. I'll Be Home For Christmas
17. Auld Lang Syne
18. Welcoming The New Year (Coda)

Dave Koz and Friends Christmas Tour 2011
With Special Guests Rick Braun, Jonathan Butler and
Candy Dulfer

Cobb Energy Performing
11/25 Atlanta, GA Arts Center
Van Wezel Performing Arts
11/26 Sarasota, FL Hall
Raymond F. Kravis Center
West Palm Beach, for the Arts - Dreyfoos
11/27 FL Hall
Philharmonic Center for
11/28 Naples, FL the Arts
11/29 Melbourne, FL Maxwell C. King Center
11/30 Clearwater, FL Ruth Eckerd Hall
12/2 Chicago, IL Auditorium Theatre
12/3 Columbus, OH Palace Theatre
12/4 Cleveland, OH Playhouse Square
North Bethesda,
12/5 MD Strathmore Music Center
Ferguson Center for the
12/6 Newport News, VA Arts
12/7 New Brunswick, NJ State Theatre
Pechanga Resort and
12/9 Temecula, CA Casino
12/10 Oakland, CA Paramount Theatre
Mesa Arts Center/Ikeda
12/14 Mesa, AZ Theatre
McCallum Theatre for the
12/15 Palm Desert, CA Performing Arts
Cerritos Center for the
12/16 Cerritos, CA Performing Arts
Cerritos Center for the
12/17 Cerritos, CA Performing Arts
Plaza Theatre Performing
12/18 El Paso, TX Arts Center
12/20 Santa Barbara, CA The Granada Theatre
12/21 Modesto, CA Gallo Center for the Arts
Wells Fargo Center for
12/22 Santa Rosa, CA the Arts
12/23 San Diego, CA Balboa Theatre

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SOURCE Capitol/EMI

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CONTACT: Judi Kerr of Judi Kerr Public Relations, judikerr@aol.com, +1-310-477-8191

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