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Oleg Kireyev

Oleg Kireyev is an internationally recognized musician. He is touring a lot, being in minds since long ago and being loved by people both locally and overseas. He posted his name on most innovative and provocative international jazz projects. His creative ideas are vast, from mainstream and ethno to jazz rock and world music. “Incredibly good, soft, enthusiastic, stylish and top notch” " that is what musical critics say about the voice of his saxophone.

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Oleg Kireyev and Keith Javors: The Meeting

Read "Oleg Kireyev and Keith Javors: The Meeting" reviewed by Howard Mandel


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 ...

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Oleg Kireyev & Keith Javors: The Meeting

Read "The Meeting" reviewed by Edward Blanco


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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Oleg Kireyev and Keith Javors: Rhyme and Reason

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


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: Mandala

Read "Mandala" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


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 ...

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Recording

Saxophonist Oleg Kireyev and Pianist Keith Javors Debut New Project "Rhyme and Reason" with Striking CD

Saxophonist Oleg Kireyev and Pianist Keith Javors Debut New Project "Rhyme and Reason" with Striking CD

Source: Braithwaite & Katz Communications

AVAILABLE INTERNATIONALLY ON APRIL 13 ON INARHYME RECORDS“Oleg Kireyev, Keith Javors, Boris Kozlov, and E.J. Strickland have created a memorable modern mainstream jazz set that also mixes together aspects of Oleg's Russian heritage, many adventurous moments, and subtle unpredictability. It is this type of forward-looking recording that grows in interest with each listen and is a perfect example of 21st century jazz." --Scott Yanow, author and jazz critic

Inarhyme Records is pleased to announce the April 13, 2010 ...

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Performance / Tour

Oleg Kireyev and Nicolas Bearde Quartet, Yoshis Jazz Club, Oakland, October 12th.

Oleg Kireyev and Nicolas Bearde Quartet, Yoshis Jazz Club, Oakland, October 12th.

Source: All About Jazz

Combine Bay Area Jazz/R&B recording artist Nicolas Bearde---whose big, velvet tone and perfectly controlled vibrato frequently complements Bobby McFerrins vocal ensemble Voicestra

With Russian born tenor sax/composer, Oleg Kireyev, and youll be treated to a collaboration of world-class jazz greats together on a single stage!

Earlier this year, these two critically acclaimed jazz icons paired up to perform numerous shows in Russia and Siberia and are now bringing their East Meets West tour to the United States. Backing the duo ...

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Oleg Kireyev and Keith Javors at the Smalls Jazz Club (NYC) on September 25th

Oleg Kireyev and Keith Javors at the Smalls Jazz Club (NYC) on September 25th

Source: Michael Ricci

Oleg Kireyev and Keith Javors at the Iridium Jazz Club (NYC) on September 25th. Featuring: Oleg Kireyev - saxophone Keith Javors - piano Boris Kozlov - bass Quincy Davis - drums The saxophone player from Russia Oleg Kireyev and the American pianist Keith Javors are now launching their new extraordinary project Rhyme and Reason. The project covers jazz mainstream, is based on their own compositions. Oleg Kireyev is an internationally recognized musician. ...

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Artists Oleg Kireyev and Keith Javors at the Iridium Jazz Club (NYC) on April 15

Artists Oleg Kireyev and Keith Javors at the Iridium Jazz Club (NYC) on April 15

Source: All About Jazz

Oleg Kireyev and Keith Javors Trio Featuring: Oleg Kireyev, saxophones Keith Javors, piano Boris Kozlov, bass E.J. Strickland, drums In a continuing collaboration of East and West, Russian jazz saxophonist Oleg Kireyev joins the Keith Javors Trio in an exciting evening of straight-ahead jazz with world influences. The show will feature a quartet setting of new originals and standards, some of which were recorded for BCD Records concluding their tour ...

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Oleg Kireyev with Feng Shui Jazz Theatre @ The Iridium

Oleg Kireyev with Feng Shui Jazz Theatre @ The Iridium

Source: Two for the Show Media

From Russia! Bandleader, Saxophonist & Composer, Oleg Kireyev will be performing with The FENG SHUI JAZZ THEATRE at The Iridium Jazz Club in NYC on September 17th, 2008. Oleg Kireyev and The FENG SHUI JAZZ THEATRE Oleg Kireyev - tenor & soprano saxophone Valery Panfilov - guitar Victor Matiukhin - bass Ildar Nafigov - drums The Iridium 1650 Broadway @ 51st Street New York, NY 10019 September 17th, ...

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Oleg Kireyev with the Keith Javors Trio at Blues Alley Jazz Club

Oleg Kireyev with the Keith Javors Trio at Blues Alley Jazz Club

Source: Two for the Show Media

In a unique collaboration of East and West, Russian jazz saxophonist Oleg Kireyev meets the Keith Javors Trio in an exciting evening of straight-ahead jazz standards and originals at Blues Alley Jazz Club in Washington DC. on Tuesday September 16th, 2008. Oleg Kireyev with the Keith Javors Trio Oleg Kireyev, saxophones Keith Javors, piano Steve Meashey, bass Brian Menendez, drums “Oleg's playing is a marvelous combination of styles...echoes of the 1920's and ...

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Oleg Kireyev with the Keith Javors Trio at Chris' Jazz Cafe

Oleg Kireyev with the Keith Javors Trio at Chris' Jazz Cafe

Source: Two for the Show Media

In a unique collaboration of East and West, Russian jazz saxophonist Oleg Kireyev meets the Keith Javors Trio in an exciting evening of straight-ahead jazz standards and originals at Chris' Jazz Cafe in Philadelphia on Monday September 15th, 2008. Oleg Kireyev with the Keith Javors Trio Oleg Kireyev, saxophones Keith Javors, piano Steve Meashey, bass Brian Menendez, drums “Oleg's playing is a marvelous combination of styles...echoes of the 1920's and John Coltrane ...

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Event

Oleg Kireyev and the Feng Shui Jazz Theatre in U.S. Premier at New York's Symphony Space April 26

Oleg Kireyev and the Feng Shui Jazz Theatre in U.S. Premier at New York's Symphony Space April 26

Source: Just Roots PR

Russian jazz saxophonist, Oleg Kireyev, will bring his diverse jazz/world music quartet to Symphony Space in New York on Saturday, April 26, 2008. Titled “The Feng Shui Jazz Theatre," Kireyev's band members include Valery Panfilov on guitar; Victor Matouhin on bass; Ildar Nafigov on drums; and Kireyev himself on tenor and soprano saxophones, keyboards and vocals. All members of the band are from the former USSR and multinational Russia.

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Oleg Kireyev and "The Feng Shui Jazz Theater" in U.S. Premier April 26, 2008

Oleg Kireyev and "The Feng Shui Jazz Theater" in U.S. Premier April 26, 2008

Source: Dawn Singh Publicity

Russian jazz saxophonist, Oleg Kireyev, will bring his diverse jazz/world music quartet to Symphony Space in New York on Saturday, April 26, 2008. Titled “The Feng Shui Jazz Theatre," Kireyev's band members include Valery Panfilov on guitar; Victor Matouhin on bass; Ildar Nafigov on drums; and Kireyev himself on tenor and soprano saxophones, keyboards and vocals. All members of the band are from the former USSR and multinational Russia. Kireyev grew up in Bashkiria near the European/Asian border. His interest ...

"Oleg's playing is a marvelous combination of styles, incorporating a whole lot of players. I hear echoes of the 1920’s and John Coltrane combined with the unstructured jazz". Bud Shank, musician , USA .

What's cool (to me, at least) about the result is how unabashed the band is in swinging genuinely hard on chestnut exotica like Puerto Rican-born Ellington trombonist Juan Tizol's "Caravan," which Kireyev turned to as an encore, and seems born to blow, dervish-like. Howard Mandel, president of the Jazz Journalists Association, USA

"A Russian sax player with a reputation for hard swing and high excitement..." The Express and Star, GBR.

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

The Meeting

Inarhyme Records, LLC
2016

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Rhyme and Reason

Inarhyme Records, LLC
2010

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Rhyme and Reasons

Zeitbyte Digital Audio and Video
2010

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Mandala

Jazzheads
2008

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Galaxy

Miras Art Music
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