The Career Of Illinois Jacquet
Jazz Unlimited for August 18, 2019, presents “The Career of Illinois Jacquet.” Born in the New Orleans area but raised in Houston, Illinois Jacquet was one of the first honking and screeching tenor sax...
View ArticleThe Keys And Strings Hour Plus New Music
Jazz Unlimited for Sunday, August 25, 2019, presents “The Keys and Strings Hour Plus New Music.” The August “Keys and Strings Hour” will feature compositions by two unrelated Bernsteins, known as...
View ArticleThe Music Of John Coltrane
Jazz Unlimited for September 1 will be “The Music of John Coltrane.” Saxophonist John Coltrane had the most formidable technique in jazz history. His influence was so strong that for decades after his...
View ArticleThe Career Of Brad Mehldau
Jazz Unlimited for September 8, 2019, presents “The Career Bred Mehladau.” One of today’s major piano players, Brad Mehldau, was born in Jacksonville in 1970 and was recording by 1991. Over his career,...
View ArticleThe Keys And Strings Hour Plus New Music
Jazz Unlimited for September 15, 2019 will present “The Keys and Strings Hour Plus New Music.” The quieter side of jazz will present quartets without horns. We will hear music from the Ralph Sutton...
View ArticleThe Compositions of Rchard Rodgers
Jazz Unlimited tonight, September 22, 2019, as we present “The Compositions of Richard Rodgers.” Composer Richard Rogers was a Broadway Theater and film composer whose work was mainly associated with...
View ArticleJazz Giants For September and October
Jazz Unlimited for September 29 is “Jazz Giants for September and October.” Jazz giants are those musicians who have made exceptional contributions to jazz. Our Jazz Giants show for September and...
View ArticleThe Music of Dizzy Gillespie
Jazz Unlimited for Sunday, October 6 will be “The Music of Dizzy Gillespie.” Trumpeter, raconteur, composer and sometime vocalist John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie was one of the founding fathers of the...
View ArticleThe Music Of Thelonious Monk
The Sept. 13 Jazz Unlimited show will present “The Music of Thelonious Monk.” By his early teens, Thelonious Monk was a promising classical pianist. However, he left this music for jazz because of the...
View ArticleThe Music Of Chick Corea
Jazz Unlimited on Sunday, October 20 will present music from the 56-year of Armando “Chick” Corea. Chick was born in the Boston area and was working professionally by his late teens. His career...
View ArticleThe Keys And Strings Hour Plus New Music
Jazz Unlimited for October 27, 2019, will present “The Keys and Strings Hour Plus New Music.” The Keys and Strings Hour will present selections from a new compilation of the Fred Hersch Trio, Art...
View ArticleThe Career Of George Duvivier
Jazz Unlimited for November 3, 2019 presents “The Music of George Duvivier.” Born in New York in 1920, Duvivier was initially a violinist and became the assistant concertmaster of the Central Manhattan...
View ArticleComposers Named Simon
Jazz Unlimited for Sunday, November 10, 2019, for “Composers Named Simon.” In addition to the well-known composer Paul Simon, there are eight composers with the same surname and one Simons presented on...
View ArticleThe Career Of Lewis Nash
Jazz Unlimited for November 17, 2019 will be “The Career of Drummer Lewis Nash.” Born in 1958 in Phoenix, Arizona, Nash was a professional by 1976. He moved to New York in 1981 and has become one of...
View ArticleBenny Golson And Sonny Rollins Compositions Plus New Music
Jazz Unlimited for Sunday, November 24, 2019 will be “Benny Golson and Sonny Rollins Compositions Plus New Music.” The compositions of Benny Golson and Sonny Rollins will be presented in both the keys...
View ArticleThe Sacred in Jazz
Jazz Unlimited for December 1, 2019 will be “The Sacred in Jazz.” Jazz can be a sacred, spiritual music, as witness the works of John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, Charlie Haden and Grant...
View ArticleChristmas Music Plus New Music for December
Jazz Unlimited for December 15, 2019 is“Christmas Songs Plus New Music” In place of the Keys and Strings hour, Jazz Unlimited presents four Christmas CD’s of note by the Night is Alive All-Stars, the...
View ArticleJazz Unlimited Host and Jazz Historian Dennis Owsley to Retire
Jazz Unlimited host and producer Dennis Owsley will retire from St. Louis Public Radio — with his final show airing December 29 — ending his 36-year legacy of presenting jazz on KWMU. Throughout his...
View ArticleReflections on Peace and Quiet Revisited
Jazz Unlimited for Sunday. December 22, 2019 will be “Reflections on Peace and Quiet Revisited.” These days, things are coming at us so fast we hardly have time to breathe. The Winter Holidays are...
View ArticleThe Jazz Unlimited Goodbye Show
Jazz Unlimited for Sunday. December 29, 2019 will be “The Jazz Unlimited Goodbye Show.” There is an old saying that begins with “For everything there is a season…” For Jazz Unlimited, it is time to go....
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