The members of A Cool Jazz Christmas: David Benoit & Jonathan Butler were friends in high school. The band was influenced by music of the 1970s. A Cool Jazz Christmas: David Benoit & Jonathan Butler began singing at local festivals. The guitarist used to fall asleep with a cassette tapeplaying as a teenager.

A Cool Jazz Christmas: David Benoit & Jonathan Butler's most current release is a refinement of their established sound. The group is in the start of the promotional tour for their most current album. After this past non-stop year the members of A Cool Jazz Christmas: David Benoit & Jonathan Butler will take some time off to work on side projects.

A Cool Jazz Christmas: David Benoit & Jonathan Butler continued to work hard, scared they would just be another one hit wonder. The group plays plenty of arenas, but would rather perform in the smaller venues in which they started. A Cool Jazz Christmas: David Benoit & Jonathan Butler met with a local DJ from K100.9 and convinced him to play their single on air. The single immediately became a local hit and larger radio stations started playing the song. Eventually a record executive heard it and signed the group. The groupspent years before being signed as an opening act.

A Cool Jazz Christmas: David Benoit & Jonathan Butler knew that their dream of making an actual life for themselves as musicians had come true in 1975, as soon as the band's first fan club was started by Kathleen Yavorsky. The fan club started out small with just a handful of members, generally localized to the area around Albany, but the creation the group’s website by Jennifer Scheutz, along with the first real national marketing campaign, saw the membership to grow into the thousands.

The group has an obsession with Desperado in Biloxi and are sure to play a show every year. A Cool Jazz Christmas: David Benoit & Jonathan Butler’s tickets for their latest tour are on sale on TheSeats.com, along with the schedule of all the band’s concerts.