Bohemians featured in Post column

St. Louis Post-Dispatch pop critic Kevin Johnson devoted a good chunk of Thursday's column to the Bohemians, a St. Louis jazz/pop/cabaret group led by guitarist, singer and songwriter Bob Bailey that's releasing their second CD. You can read the article online here.

Johnson mentions in the piece that the Bohemians' first recording attracted a favorable notice from noted jazz critic Nat Hentoff. What isn't mentioned is that Hentoff did not just pick the recording out of the "slush pile" and single it out for praise; he came across it because his son-in-law, Michael Killian, was a member of the band at the time.

While no one could blame Hentoff for saying nice things about about a band including the father of his grandchildren, this doesn't necessarily invalidate his opinion of the CD, either. It is, however, an interesting tidbit that seems worth pointing out to the reader, and so, now, as that old gasbag Paul Harvey would say, you know the rest of the story.