Keshavan Maslak Quartet Kenny Millions' Big Time (1982)

Saxofonist Kenneth Keshavan Maslak (pseudoniem: Kenny Millions) is geboren in Detroit in 1947. Zijn ouders waren immigranten uit Oekraïne. Van 1978 tot 1981 woonde hij in Nederland. Op 20 augustus 1981 nam Maslak met een gelegenheidskwartet 'Kenny Millions' Big Time' op. Het album werd door Jazz Freak Magazine uitgeroepen tot Best Dutch Jazz Record of 1982. "This date hooks him up with the extraordinary Dutch pianist Misha Mengelberg, fellow Michigander bassist John Lindberg, and ex-Ornette Coleman drummer Charles Moffett. The sound of Maslak/Millions is quite parallel to that of Arthur Blythe at the time, a lime flavored tone slightly sweetened by a lighthearted non-serious mindset, and a ribald comic relief that would become a trademark. No matter the attitude, there's seriously brilliant musicianship going on here that straddles the fence between the conventional and traditional or progressive and daring". (Michael G. Nastos, Allmusic).