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Live From the Village Vanguard-Part 2

Jazz Unlimited on February 16 is “Live from the Village Vanguard-Part 2.”  We continue our survey of New York jazz clubs with the first of two parts on the Village Vanguard.  Max Gordon started the club in 1935 and ran it until his death in 1989.  Since then, his widow Lorraine continues to run it.  It remains the way it was when Max died.  The featured artists for this show, the Junior Mance Trio, the Joe Lovano Quartet, Chucho Valdes and his band, the John Coltrane Quartet, the Bobby Hutcherson Quartet, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Dizzy Gillespie, the Bill Evans Trio, Art Pepper, the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, Chris Potter’s Underground, the Dexter Gordon Quintet, the Bill Charlap Trio, the Joe Henderson Trio, the Joshua Redman Quartet with Peter Martin and Chris Thomas, the Paul Motian group with Greg Osby, the Joe Lovano Tentette, and the Albert Ayler group reflect the diverse nature of the music played in that club.

The Slide Show has my photographs of some of the artists heard on tonight's show.

This Archive of the show will only be available until the morning of February 23, 2014.

Here is a video of Chris Potter's Underground playing "The Wheel" in Stuttgart, Germany in 2009.  Chris Potter (ts), Craig Taborn (el-p) Adam Rogers (g) and Nate Smith (d)

Dennis Owsley has broadcast a weekly jazz show for St. Louis Public Radio since April 1983. He holds a Ph.D. in organic chemistry and is a retired Monsanto Senior Science Fellow and college teacher. His show, Jazz Unlimited, airs every Sunday from 9:00 p.m. to midnight. The show has the largest jazz audience in St. Louis and was named Best Jazz Radio Show in St. Louis for the years 2005-2007 and 2009 by the Riverfront Times. In celebration of his 25 years on the air, January 24, 2008 was proclaimed Dennis Owsley Day" in the City of St. Louis. He is the 2010 winner of the St. Louis Public Radio Millard S. Cohen Lifetime Achievement Award. Dennis is also a noted photographer, and his exhibit, In the Moment: Photographs of Jazz Musicians, ran from September 23, 2005 to January 21, 2006 at the Sheldon Art Gallery. He is a lifetime student of jazz history and teaches short courses on the subject. Dennis is the author of the award-winning book City of Gabriels: The History of Jazz in St. Louis 1985-1973, published in 2006.