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Winter Holiday Music

Jazz Unlimited for Sunday, December 23 will be “Winter Holiday Music.”  In this country, the month of December is host to four major celebratory traditions: Hanukkah, Winter Solstice,  Christmas and Kwanzaa.  We will play music not only of the season, but also suggestive of the season.  The artists heard on this show are Joe Henderson, Don Byron, Count Basie. The Sackville All-Stars, Dave Brubeck. Thomas Marriott, Keith Jarrett, Toshiko Akiyoshi. Ray Anderson, Matt Wilson’s Christmas Tree-O, McCoy Tyner, Regina Carter, Charlie Haden, Hank Jones, Wayne Shorter, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Ben Allison, Red Garland, Pat Metheny, William Parker, Abdullah Ibrahim and Dexter Gordon.

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

Due to copyright restrictions, the audio from this show is no longer available. Audio links are available for one week after a show airs, starting on the Monday after the show.

This is Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O with Jeff Lederer (ts) Paul Sikivie (b) and Matt Wilson (d) on an NPR Tiny Desk Concert in 2010.

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.