I very stubbornly stuck with the clarinet because I love the instrument and made them give me clarinet solos instead of saxophone solos on everything. I was always very proud to play clarinet. Ken ...

As the summer wraps up, here are some notable local club appearances and one promising mountain jazz festival to help us savor every last moment. Ken Peplowski is inarguably one of the finest living ...

For an acclaimed clarinetist like Ken Peplowski, the upbeat Christmas standards like “Sleigh Ride” are fun to play, but the guest artist at next week’s “Swingin’ Christmas” concert by the Knoxville ...

Perhaps you’ve heard that Capital Public Radio and the Harris Center will present a concert tomorrow honoring Benny Goodman’s historic 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall. Clarinet virtuoso Ken Peplowski is ...

Ken Peplowski, Evan Christopher and Anat Cohen are backed by a band proficient in time-honored and broad-shouldered styles of the Swing Era. This... The name of the band refers to Ken Peplowski, a ...

Clarinetist Ken Peplowski returns to the Attucks Jazz Club! “Brilliantly entertaining” (DownBeat), Peplowski has been hailed by the BBC as “arguably the greatest living jazz clarinetist.” Hearing this ...

This is the best of times for jazz musician Ken Peplowski, renowned clarinet and tenor saxophonist. So good, in fact it was difficult for him to find time to talk by phone in June. Having just ...

There is something warmly intimate about this record, bright as a button, with pep in its step, as two acclaimed jazz veterans interact with a kind of restrained joy Ken Peplowski (clarinet & tenor ...

he late Mel Torme´said, “Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic.

Ken Peplowski’s Noir Blue is one of those jazz records that just swings and sways naturally. Its ten silky tracks find the reedman respectful of tradition, sure, but he still allows his own diverse ...

A few years ago, I heard a young vocalist—I can’t remember her name, and it’s probably better that way—trying to sing “Here’s to Life.” This song by arranger-composer Artie Butler and lyricist Phyllis ...