Alternate Takes

By Dennis Owsley

Published June 28, 2018 at 7:40 AM CDT

Jazz Unlimited for Sunday, July 1, 2018 ill be “Alternate Takes.” Many of our favorite jazz recordings have alternate takes recorded on the same day or even some time later by the same group, vocalist or big band. I suspect that many of you have heard these famous tunes so much that you have memorized them. We will hear some of these alternate takes and possibly hear why these takes were not used for the final pressing of these famous recordings. Some of the artists featured on this show are Louis Armstrong, Charlie Christian, Art Tatum, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Ahmad Jamal, Art Blakey, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Herbie Hancock and others.

The Slide Show has one of my photographs of Ahmad Jamal, heard on this show.

The Archive of this show will be available until the morning og July 9, 2018.

The visdo is of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Playing "Moanin'" in 1958 with Lee Morgan (tp) Benny Goldon (ts) Bobby Timmons (p) Jymie Merritt (b) and Art Blakey (d)

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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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