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First time I heard a recording of Dave Koz playing the saxophone was in Mairo Burdette’s Dance Factory in Stockholm. The song was “Together Again” and it literally made me jump for joy. We connected in 2011 through mutual friends and Dave came to one of my concerts in Mission Dolores Basilica in San Francisco.We appreciate each others playing and also became friends and spent a day hiking in the Muir Woods and in the Marin Headlands near Sausalito.

In 2018 Dave invited me to join his star studded Dave Koz Cruise in the Baltic. We played together and it inspired me to invite Dave to play a duet with me on this “Smooth Talk” song that I composed together with Grammy Award winning studio wizard and producer Pål Svenre. The idea of the song is that music can be a tool for non-violent communication and a way to connect humanity through cross-cultural bridge building.

Anders Paulsson www.anderspaulsson.com

Special thanks to:

Dave Koz for playing with me.www.davekoz.com

Pål Svenre for being my Quincy.www.palsvenre.se

Thomas Eberger for excellent mastering.www.stockholmmastering.se

Håkan Sjögren for publishing the song through his Sonoconsult label.www.sonoconsult.seFredrik Jonsson for groovy acoustic bass playing.Andy Argyrakis for the photo of Dave on the CD cover.Philippe Hurlin for the picture of me on the CD cover.

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In a career that spans more than three decades, saxophonist Dave Koz has racked up an astoundingly impressive array of honors and achievements: nine GRAMMY® nominations, nine No. 1 albums on Billboard’s Current Contemporary Jazz Albums chart, numerous world tours, playing for multiple presidents, a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and more. A platinum-selling artist, Koz is also known as a humanitarian, entrepreneur, radio host, instrumental music advocate and restaurateur.

Born and raised in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley, Koz became a professional musician after graduating college. He immediately found work as a sideman and was subsequently signed to Capitol Records in 1987. Koz released his self-titled solo debut album in the fall of 1990, followed by a large body of best-selling work, including several gold-certified albums and numerous Top 5 singles. In 2010, he signed with Concord Records and released the No. 1 Hello Tomorrow. Live at the Blue Note Tokyo, Koz’s first live CD, was released by Concord in 2012 and received a GRAMMY® nomination for Best Pop Instrumental Album. His 2014 holiday recording, The 25th of December, was his eighth album to top Billboard’s Current Contemporary Jazz Albums chart.

Koz also hosts two radio programs: The Dave Koz Radio Show, on the air uninterrupted for close to 25 years, and The Dave Koz Lounge, which can be heard on SiriusXM. In addition, he also co-owns a restaurant in Los Angeles called Citizen.

Koz has served as global ambassador for the Starlight Children’s Foundation for over 26 years. He founded KOZ Wines in 2009 as another avenue to support the foundation. Dave donates all his proceeds from KOZ Wines to the organization and with the help from his fans have raised over a million dollars through the Dave Koz and Friends At Sea cruise silent auction.

Koz completed a four-year term on the GRAMMY® Foundation Artists Committee and has served as National Trustee for the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS).

“Music has been such a blessing to me, and we need it more than ever today,” Koz says about his remarkable career.

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Since his Carnegie Hall debut in 1992, Anders Paulsson (*1961) is widely recognized as one of the finest soprano saxophonists in the world. His musicianship has inspired a succession of over 50 international composers to write solo concertos and chamber music for him.He has performed in major music centers like Berlin Philharmonie, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall in London, Palau de la Musica in Valencia, Moscow International Performing Arts Centre and Kitakyushu Performing Arts Centre in Japan. In 2012 Anders Paulsson was awarded the Royal Gold Medal Litteris et Artibus for his prominent artistic achievements as soprano saxophonist.Anders has performed hundreds of concerts as a soloist in 30 countries and released 22 CDs. His pioneering CD recording Swedish Concertos for Soprano Saxophone with music by Anders Eliasson, Rolf Martinsson & Sven-David Sandström has received praise in Gramophone as a real high.He has performed as soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Stockholm, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and St. Petersburg Philharmonic and has collaborated with conductors such as Andrew Manze, John Storgårds, Lü Jia, Okku Kamu, Eva Ollikainen, Johannes Gustavsson, Jessica Cottis, Fabio Mastrangelo & Lan Shui. After classical saxophone studies at the Royal College in Stockholm and with Jean-Marie Londeix in France, a Fulbright ITT International Fellowship enabled him to study with Joseph Allard and Bob Mintzer at Manhattan School of Music, New York City. As a composer, Anders Paulsson was awarded “The Golden Clapperboard” for best original film music in 1994 together with Johan Söderqvist. 2013-2014 Anders

Paulsson was Composer-in-Residence at the MIAGI Youth Symphony Orchestra in South Africa: www.miagi.co.za Many of his performances have been broadcast on international television and radio and his recordings have received high acclaim from music critics and audiences worldwide. At the Nobel festivities in 1993 Anders Paulsson performed for Nelson Mandela when he received the Nobel Peace Prize and for the Nobel Prize winners of Medicine in 2003. Anders Paulsson seeks to use music to promote international understanding, peace and biosphere stewardship. He is the co-founder of Coral Guardians www.coralguardians.org, an organization that combines music and science to raise awareness about the world’s coral reefs and what is needed to safeguard them for future generations. A highlight of this endeavor is Anders Paulsson´s Symphonic composition Kumulipo Reflections = the Coral Symphony World Premiere with Hawai´i Symphony Orchestra conducted by Grammy winning JoAnn Falletta featuring the Hawaiian Creation Epic Kumulipo performed by Aaron Mahi. For more information, please visit www.anderspaulsson.com

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Specification of Pål Svenre´s studio: Unit 7

Console: Harrison Series 12 analog console, 72 channels with total recall/full automationMonitoring: ATC SCM45A, Adam Sub 10DAW: ProTools and LogicAudio interfaces: Prism & AvidMics: Vintage Neumann U67 and KM56s, Andreas Grosser U47, Gefell CMV563s, UM57, UM92 and M582s, Lucas CS-1 and CS-4, Flea 249s, Schoeps CMC6 with MK4, 21 & 2S capsules, collection of vintage ribbon microphones from RCA, Coles etc, dynamic microphones from Sure, Sennheiser, Thuresson and EVPreamps: AMS/Neve 1081s and 1084s, Avalon 737s, Vintage RCA OP-6 etcLimiters: Large collection of compressors from Analogue tube, Retro Instruments, Chandler, D.V Fearn, Thermionic Culture, Shadow Hills, ADL, BAE, Urei, UA, Locomotive Audio, Q2 Audio, Purple, Serpent Audio etcEq: 2xPultec EQP-1A, 2xCartec EQP-1A, a number of DIY API style eqs 500 format eqs from TB Audio and CAPIReverbs and misc outboard: Bricasti System 2, TC 1210 Chorus, TBDD Chorus (Dimension D clone), SPL Transient Designer TD-4, 2x Thermionic Culture Vulture Mastering Limited edition, 2x Standard Audio Level-ors

Fredrik Jonsson acoustic bass

Pål Svenre Producer, composer

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Pål Svenre - Grammy award - Best producer in 1995

Essential work summary since the mid 80’s:

Click album names to listen in Spotify:

Rebecka Törnqvist (producer, co write, arranger) - A Night Like This (-93), Good Thing (-95), Tremble My Heart (-98)Weeping Willows (producer, arranger, musician) - Broken Promise Land (-97)Wilmer X (producer, co-arranger) - Hallå Världen (- 95), Primitiv (-98), Silver (-2000)Svante Thuresson (producer, arranger, musician) - Jag är hip, Baby... (-95)Per 'Texas' Johansson (producer) - Holon (-97), Alla Mina Kompisar (-98), Man Kan Lika Gärna Leva (-99)Alberte Winding (producer, arranger, musician) - Brænder Sol (-99) currently not on SpotifyGeorg Riedels Orkester (producer, arranger) - Barn På Nytt (-03)Mikael Wiehe (producer, co arranger, musician) - Kärleken och Politik (-04), Främmande Land (-05)Emily McEwan (producer, co arranger, musician, mix ’In This Place’) - Highland Fling (-06), In This Place (-10)Margareta Bengtson (producer, arranger, ’En gång i Stockholm’) - I’m Old Fashioned (-06), En Gång i Stockholm (-09)Silje Nergaard (producer) - Darkness Out Of Blue (-07), A Thousand True Stories (-08), Unclouded (-12)Joakim Milder (mix) - Takeaway (-10)Peter Asplund (producer, mix) - Asplund Meets Bernstein (-11)Peter Jöback (producer, co mix) - Livet, Kärleken och Döden (-11)Studio Tan (mix) - Studio Tan (-12)Magnus Lindgren (mix) - Fyra (-12), Souls (coming -13)Christina Gustafsson (mix) - My Move (-08), Law Of the Lady (-13)Rigmor Gustafsson (mix) - with Dala Sinfonietta (coming -13/14)Martin Sjöstedt (mix) - Whereabouts (-10), Good To Be (-12), In the Blink of an Eye (-13)Lisa Nilsson (producer, co arranger, musician, co mix) - Sånger Om Oss (-13)

www.palsvenre.se

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