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Keys And Strings Hour/New Music

Jazz Unlimited for May 24, 2015 will be “The Keys ad Strings Hour/New Music.”  The quieter side of jazz will present music by Oscar Peterson, Gene Harris and Errol Garner.  During the hour, we will hear new music by Regina Carter’s Southern Comfort, Roger Kellaway and two piano/bass duets between John Hicks and Richard Davis and Kenny Barron and Dave Holland.  The new music segment will segment will have recordings from Art Blakey and the Jazz Giants, Benny Green, the SFJazz Collective, the Palmetto All-Stars, Chris Potter’s Underground Orchestra, Daniel Bennett, Levon Mikaelian and the United States of Artistry group, David Liebman, Marc Copland, Myra Melford and the Bob Mintzer Big Band with Kurt Elling.

The Slide Show presents my photographs of the artists heard on this show.

This Archive of the show will be available until the morning of June 1, 2015

Here is Regina Carter and Southern Comfort playing "I'm Going Home" on Soundcheck in 2014.

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.