Jazz Articles about Oleg Kireyev

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Oleg Kireyev and Keith Javors: The Meeting

by Howard Mandel
May 15, 2023

How far must a reeds virtuoso from Bashkiria--a town in the Ural Mountains, southeast of Moscow towards Mongolia--and a pianist-composer-educator from southern Illinois, now living in Philadelphia, have to go to get together? Not very, based on the music Oleg Kireyev and Keith Javors arrive at on The Meeting. Simply to a shared sense of joy in swinging rhythms, warm, rich harmonies and singable songs. In their second co-led album Kireyev and Javors offer more delightful proof that ...

Album Review

Oleg Kireyev & Keith Javors: The Meeting

Read "The Meeting" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
May 17, 2016

Performing together since 2007, Russian saxophonist Oleg Kireyev and Philadelphia-based pianist Keith Javors formed a solid quartet they eventually led to the studio for their debut album Rhyme & Reason (Inarhyme Records, 2010). The Meeting is their follow up recording with a program of four originals and three re-imagined tunes from The Great American Songbook delivered in a tasteful post-bop style. Interestingly enough, it was Kireyev who discovered Javors while surfing the internet and cemented their friendship while ...

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Album Review

Oleg Kireyev and Keith Javors: Rhyme and Reason

Read "Rhyme and Reason" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
September 30, 2010

Rhyme and Reason is a spare collection of just six charts that swing with both familiar and unfamiliar time. All four members of this vibrant quartet, fronted by pianist Keith Javors and saxophonist Oleg Kireyev, seem prepared to let the music flow from the most commonly known musical focal point out into the sea of surprise, where each of the artists appears to corral the unknown. Javors has a rather forthright style, but does not shy away from the softer ...

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Oleg Kireyev - Keith Javors: Rhyme and Reasons

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 29, 2010

Il quartetto diretto da Oleg Kireyev, sassofonista russo fra i più noti in patria, e dal pianista americano Keith Javors ci offre un jazz transnazionale che forse non sarebbe stato possibile prima della caduta della cortida di ferro. A completare il quartetto ci sono Boris Kozlov, contrabbassista russo ormai noto a livello internazionale per le sue numerose collaborazioni nell'area del modern mainstream, ed il batterista americano E.J. Strickland. È un gruppo che funziona da tempo, in giro fra paesi come ...

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Album Review

Oleg Kireyev: Mandala

Read "Mandala" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
June 5, 2008

Saxophonist Oleg Kireyev's Mandala is a most interesting release. At a mere three minutes and thirty-six seconds, the title track alone is an audible sonic feast with everything from thrash rock guitar, electronics, a Russian dance theme, and primal chants to Indian tabla percussion, all packed into a strong groove momentum. Kireyev's background of combining multiple cultures, growing up near the European/Asian borders in Bashkiria, Russia, and his exposure to classical, bebop, Moldavian and Asian music dominates the ...