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Jazz Unlimited: Keys and strings hour and other music

By Dennis Owsley
Published Feb. 21, 2015 at 2:11 p.m. CST
Dennis Owsley

Jazz Unlimited with host Dennis Owsley will air Sunday, February 22 at 9 p.m.

This week's show will be “Keys and Strings Hour and Other Music.”  The quieter side of jazz will mainly feature compositions by pianist Elmo Hope.  Herbie Nichols will present two of his compositions while pianist Myra Melford will also be heard.  

Other music will feature Charlie Haden and Hank Jones, Peter Appleyard, Catherine Russell, Donald Byrd and Gigi Gryce, Les McCann, Stanley Turrentine, Bobby Hutcherson, Matt Wilson, Herbie Hancoek, Keith Jarrett, Jonathan Blake and Ravi Coltrane.

There are no photographs or video for this show.

This archive of the show will be available until the morning of March 2, 2015.

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Dennis Owsley
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.
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