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Keith Javors

Never compromising a strong dedication to excellence, critically-acclaimed artist, producer, educator, and entrepreneur Dr. Keith Javors has seen success in nearly every facet of the modern music industry. From his unmatched multiple, consecutive Downbeat magazine awards as a teacher and bandleader to the cutting edge leadership behind his global imprint Inarhyme Records to his natural aptitudes as a profound and soulful player and composer, Javors does it all, and he does it all at an undisputed high level. Not by his own admittance, Jazz Times says "The degree of hard work, patience, study, blood, sweat and tears necessary to produce a band of this quality is phenomenal."

Keith is President and CEO of Inarhyme Records LLC, a top-shelf Indie record label and music production company which produces critically-acclaimed and cutting-edge releases and produces concert collaborations throughout North America and abroad. The label has garnished consistent media praise by top periodicals ranging from Downbeat and Jazz Times to the Chicago Tribune for its high quality. Inarhyme’s releases feature such leading artists as the Hamburg Jazz Radio Orchestra, Tom Harrell, Boris Kozlov, Chris Potter, Terell Stafford, E.J. Strickland, Ben Williams, Steve Wilson, and many others. Described by alto saxophonist and Jazz Hall of Famer Bunky Green as a “creative force with an urgent message that cannot be denied”, Keith is a riveting player and live performer, particularly communicative in his ballad playing, transforming audiences and bands with his creativity and dynamic sensibilities. He can be heard on several emotive recordings as a leader: Mantra, From Here To The Street, Mo’ City Jungle, The Free Project, Coming Together, Rhyme and Reason, as well as On the Bright Side with the American Music Project which he co-leads. One jazz connoisseur in Moscow summed it up like this: “There are many musicians who play brilliantly from their head, but Keith is rare in that he comes straight from the heart.”

Over the years, Keith’s various ensembles have performed at the top major festivals, clubs, and performance spaces around the globe: The Rockefeller Center, the International House of Music in Moscow, Jubilee Festival at Piwnica pod Baranami, North Sea Jazz Festival, Yaroslavl Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, Vienne Jazz Festival, many International Association for Jazz Education Conferences, the Midwest Clinic; Blues Alley, Smalls, the Jazz Showcase, Union of Composers, Smoke, the Iridium, Caravan of Dreams, and many others. Javors has worked in producing or musical collaboration with a who’s who of leading artists including Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Terence Blanchard, Dave Brubeck, George Coleman, Kenny Garrett, Slide Hampton, the Heath Brothers, Eddie Henderson, Dave Holland, Pat Martino, Gerry Mulligan, Eddie Palmieri, Chris Potter, Sam Rivers, Maria Schneider, and Clark Terry, to name a few.

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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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Keith Javors: Mo

Read "Mo" reviewed by Mark Sabbatini


Mo' City Jungle is a bit like a mediocre blind date where the person in question makes a nice first impression but reveals an unpleasant identity crisis as the evening progresses.

Pianist Keith Javors' third album is a bit frustrating because his septet of players indicate early what they're capable of, but seldom live up to that potential. The result is an uneven album that can't decide if it wants to be modern or fusion-influenced jazz. Also, someone ...

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Keith Javors: Mo' City Jungle

Read "Mo' City Jungle" reviewed by John Kelman


With a style that is reverential yet modern, Keith Javors’ Mo’ City Jungle pays tribute to the Detroit jazz scene with a programme of nine originals that bristle with energy, group interplay and soloing of the highest order.

Javors is a thirty-something pianist who is also an educator at the University of North Florida; but refuting the adage that “those who can’t do, teach,” Javors’ writing and playing could only come from someone who has done plenty. With a style ...

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The Keith Javors Quartet: From Here to the Street

Read "From Here to the Street" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Pianist Keith Javors, who is now an assistant professor of Jazz Studies at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, recorded this set of his original compositions more than three years ago in Marquette, Michigan, with “deep gratitude and respect to [his] musical heroes: Benny Green, Mulgrew Miller, Herbie Hancock and the late Kenny Kirkland.” Javors, who is clearly a talented musician, has absorbed many of their more adaptable notions and added a few wrinkles of his own to produce ...

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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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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 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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Keith Javors Joins ArtistShare For His Latest Recording, "Free"

Keith Javors Joins ArtistShare For His Latest Recording, "Free"

Source: All About Jazz

November 3, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Keith Javors Joins ArtistShare For His Latest Recording, “Free" Philadelphia, PA. (October 31, 2005) - Having recently joined the Philadelphia music community, acclaimed jazz pianist/composer/ educator Keith Javors has recently joined artists Maria Schneider, Jim Hall, Jane Ira Bloom, Billy Childs, and others on the ArtistShare roster (www.artistshare.net) for the creation of his latest recording entitled “Free". The project, which can ...

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Keith Javors Makes Rare NYC Appearance Monday October 18th at Smoke 9:30 PM

Keith Javors Makes Rare NYC Appearance Monday October 18th at Smoke 9:30 PM

Source: All About Jazz

The gig is a set from 9:30-11pm which is followed by a jam session. It is at Smoke on Monday October 18th. Smoke is at 2751 Broadway, between 105th and 106th Sts. and the phone number is 212-864-6662. John Farnsworth (tenor sax) Quintet, featuring Danny Moore (trumpet), Gerald Cannon (bass), Keith Javors (piano) and drummer to be determined. This is a weekly gig for John Farnsworth which features different special guests each time. For more information about John Farnsworth please ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

The Meeting

Inarhyme Records, LLC
2016

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On the Bright Side

Zeitbyte Digital Audio and Video
2010

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Mo' City Jungle

Zoho Music
2004

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Mo

Zoho Music
2004

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From Here to the...

Self Produced
2000

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