So smooth, so smooth — and yet —

“For a few months after Dave Koz began his weekday morning DJ stint on 94.7 KTWV The Wave in the Spring of 2001, pals in the local music community teased him with an off-color joke. They called him the “Rosa Parks of smooth jazz,” because his face was on the back of every bus in Los Angeles. Seems you couldn’t go anywhere in the city without seeing the veteran saxman’s friendly smile shining back at you.”

Dave Koz will sax racism in the face.