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From The Original Tom Hull Blog
Jazz Prospecting (CG #23, Part 8)
Jazz Consumer Guide should be in Village Voice this week, meaning Wednesday, April 7. Went through the edit and title last week. Haven't heard anything about the layout, which typically means cuts, so I'm likely to find out when you find out. Otherwise had a slow week, with lots of distractions, some spring fever (meaning nasty allergies) making it hard to make up my mind about records. Have some house projects going on which will keep slowing me down. In any case, I'm far enough along I can finish another Jazz CG in a couple of weeks once I pull the trigger. Wish the Voice would run them more often, given how far behind we all are.
Should do a surplus post this week sometime. Will also have a Recycled Goods up, and probably a Rhapsody streamnotes. Also have a bunch of book stuff piled up.
Oleg Kireyev/Keith Javors: Rhyme & Reason (2009 [2010], Inarhyme): Kireyev is a tenor saxophonist, b. 1964, Russia, somewhere way out in the Urals; came to US in 1994, studied under Bud Shank. Website lists 10 previous albums going back to 1989, most on Russian labels (one Polish, one American). The latter was Mandala, from his Feng Shui Jazz Project, a world-fusion thang I liked a lot. This, however, is pure mainstream -- one might even say a perfectly good Bud Shank album. Javors is a pianist, b. 1971 Carbondale, IL; studied at UNT; taught various places; has several albums since 2000, and has shown up in contexts like the American Music Project. Boris Kozlov plays bass; E.J. Strickland drums. Lovely album. A-
Jazz Prospecting (Tom Hull)
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