Keith Javors leads Taylor Roberts (guitar), Stefan Klein (drums), and Stan Piper (bass) through an evening of improvisation and exploration at Blue Jay Listening Room.

Dr. Keith Javors is a pianist, composer, producer, record-label executive, and educator whose career spans more than three decades of professional recording, performance, production, and music education.

Javors is President and CEO of Inarhyme Music Group, LLC and Artistic Director of Inarhyme Records, an independent label and production company whose releases and projects have received international critical recognition. Inarhyme recordings have featured leading artists including Tom Harrell, Chris Potter, Terell Stafford, Boris Kozlov, E.J. Strickland, Ben Williams, Steve Wilson, and the NDR/Hamburg Jazz Radio Orchestra. The label was recognized as Best Record Label in Philadelphia in the 2019 Best of Philadelphia Awards.

As a recording artist and bandleader, Javors has released numerous critically acclaimed albums, including Mantra, From Here to the Street, Mo’ City Jungle, The Free Project, Coming Together, Rhyme and Reason, On the Bright Side, and The Meeting, a collaboration with Russian saxophonist Oleg Kireyev featuring Tom Harrell, Ben Williams, and E.J. Strickland. His forthcoming recording Dare You To Move continues an extensive catalog of original jazz composition and production.

Javors has performed and collaborated internationally with artists including 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, Clark Terry, and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. His ensembles have appeared at major festivals and venues throughout North America and Europe, including the Montreux, North Sea, and Vienne Jazz Festivals.

An award-winning educator and clinician, Javors earned B.M. and M.M. degrees in Jazz Studies from the University of North Texas and an Ed.D. in Music Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was the first graduate of its Jazz Pedagogy doctoral program. His faculty appointments have included the University of North Texas, University of Illinois, Eastern Illinois University, University of North Florida, and Settlement Music School. Under his direction, the University of North Florida Jazz Ensemble earned multiple consecutive DownBeat Student Music Awards for Best College Big Band.

Javors continues to record, produce, perform, and develop music projects internationally.