Party Time

By Dennis Owsley

Published January 1, 2018 at 8:34 AM CST

Jazz Unlimited for December 31, 2017 is “Party Time.” New Year’s eve is always a time of parties celebrating the end of the year and the coming of the New Year. The parties range from sedate to out out of control with people imbibing too much. We will celebrate the New Year with party music to fit the occasion and will start one hour later due to the symphony broadcast. Music by Bluesiana Triangle, Ramsey Lewis, Dinah Washington, Monty Alexander, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Art Blakey, Lee Morgan, Cassandra Wilson, Jimmy Smith, Gene Ammons and Ray Charles.

The Slide Show contains a photo of the Monty Alexander Trio.

The Archive of this show will be available until January 8, 2017

Here is Dinah Washington singing "All of Me: accompanied by Don Elliott (mellophone,vib) Urbie Green (tb) Terry Gibbs (vib) Wynton Kelly (p) Paul West (b) Max Roach (d) at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.

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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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