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The Keys And Strings Hour (Oscar) + New Music

Jazz Unlimited  for February 25, 2018 will be “The Keys and Strings Hour (Oscar) Plus New Music.”   The “Keys and Strings Hour will present performances by Oscar Peterson plus four of his compositions played by Makoto Ozone, Rene Rosnes & Bill Charlap, Ramsey Lewis and Monty Alexander.  The New Music Segment for February in the last two hours will feather music by Alicia Olatuja, Cyrus Chestnut, Peter Sommer, Mike Vaax & Ron Romm, James Hall. Craig Fraedrich. The Jeff Hamilton Trio, Carolyn Davis, The Hal Galper Quartet with Jerry Bergonzi, Wali Ali, the Electric Squeezebox Orhcestra, Adam Nussbaum, Chris Platt, the Dingonek Street Band and Denys Baptiste.

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

The Archive of this show will be available until the morning of March 5, 2018.

This is a video of Alicia Olatuja singing "Serrado" with Christian McBride (b) in 2014.  Others are unidentified.

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.