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Joe Mancuso And Dave Black Interview + New Music

Jazz Unlimited July 17, 2016 for “Joe Mancuso and Dave Black Interview + New Music.”  St. Louis vocalist Joe Mancuso and guitarist Dave Black will be interviewed about a new CD coming out on July 23 called Just the Two of Us.  New music will be heard in the second and third hours including one with Louis Armstrong and the New York Philharmonic.  Other new music will be from the Kevin Hayes New Jazz Trio, Roberta Pickett, Teddy Edwards, the Korean bassist Joonsam, the Black Arts Collective, Big Band Terassa & Judy Niemack, Ed Calle, Guillermo Klein, Dan Cray and Corey Christiansen.

The Slide Show has my photographs of some of the musicians heard on this show.

The Archive of this show will be available until the morning of July 25, 2016.

Here is a video of Joe Mancuso (vcl) Dave Black (g) Willem Von Holmbrach (b) at KindaBlue in 2o14.

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.