
Jazz Unlimited ended on December 29, 2019 with host . The weekly radio show covered the continuum of jazz from Louis Armstrong to Lester Bowie. Each show was scripted and based on a theme to provide the broadest coverage of the music.
Host Dennis Owsley has been a jazz album collector, aficionado, and historian since 1958 and has seen most of the major artists in jazz in live performance. April 2018 marks his 35th anniversary presenting jazz on 漏 2024 外网天堂. He celebrated his 25th anniversary with a mayoral proclamation of a Dennis Owsley Day on January 24, 2008. He received the Millard S. Cohen Lifetime Achievement Award from 漏 2024 外网天堂 in 2010 and was named a Jazz Hero of St. Louis by the Jazz Journalists Association. Jazz Unlimited won the Riverfront Times' Best of St. Louis Award in the "Best Jazz Show" category six times.
Nearly all the music heard on Jazz Unlimited is from Owsley's personal collection. He has an international reputation as a photographer of jazz musicians as well.
Owsley wrote an award-winning book, City of Gabriels鈥擳he Jazz History of St. Louis 1895-1973.
He produced a radio documentary in 1986 that led to that book. That documentary was produced again and expanded in 2013, the second-longest music documentary in radio history.
Listen to the most recent two episodes of Jazz Unlimited:
View playlists from past episodes of Jazz Unlimited:
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Jazz Unlimited for Sunday. December 29, 2019 will be 鈥淭he Jazz Unlimited Goodbye Show.鈥 There is an old saying that begins with 鈥淔or everything there is a鈥
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Jazz Unlimited for Sunday. December 22, 2019 will be 鈥淩eflections on Peace and Quiet Revisited.鈥 These days, things are coming at us so fast we hardly鈥
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Jazz Unlimited host and producer Dennis Owsley will retire from 漏 2024 外网天堂鈥攚ith his final show airing December 29鈥攅nding his 36-year legacy of鈥
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Jazz Unlimited for December 15, 2019 is鈥淐hristmas Songs Plus New Music鈥 In place of the Keys and Strings hour, Jazz Unlimited presents four Christmas CD鈥檚鈥
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Jazz Unlimited for December 8, 2019 will be 鈥淭he Sacred in Jazz.鈥 Jazz can be a sacred, spiritual music, as witness the works of John Coltrane, Duke鈥
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Jazz Unlimited for Sunday, November 24, 2019 will be 鈥淏enny Golson and Sonny Rollins Compositions Plus New Music.鈥 The compositions of Benny Golson and鈥
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Jazz Unlimited for November 17, 2019 will be 鈥淭he Career of Drummer Lewis Nash.鈥 Born in 1958 in Phoenix, Arizona, Nash was a professional by 1976. He鈥
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Jazz Unlimited for Sunday, November 10, 2019, for 鈥淐omposers Named Simon.鈥 In addition to the well-known composer Paul Simon, there are eight composers鈥
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Jazz Unlimited for November 3, 2019 presents 鈥淭he Music of George Duvivier.鈥 Born in New York in 1920, Duvivier was initially a violinist and became the鈥
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Jazz Unlimited for October 27, 2019, will present 鈥淭he Keys and Strings Hour Plus New Music.鈥 The Keys and Strings Hour will present selections from a new鈥