Peplowski, who died Feb. 2, started playing clarinet professionally at age 10 and went on to perform with the Benny Goodman Orchestra and to record on his own. Originally broadcast July 7, 1999.
Also a saxophone standout, he served as stylistic bridge between the Benny Goodman swing era and the genre-blurring present.
He was a nice Jewish boy from Chicago, the son of a tailor from Warsaw, and he played the clarinet. The experienced jazz musicians aboard the excursion boat were skeptical of the slight, bespectacled ...
Program notes by George Avakian ([3] p.) bound in. Performer(s): Jazz recordings of radio broadcasts by the original Benny Goodman Orchestra, Trio, and Quartet ; featuring Harry James, Lionel Hampton, ...
DECATUR — Remember the Benny Goodman clarinet sound? A young, remarkably accomplished Dave Bennett is bringing it to Decatur. Bennett leads a quartet into the Decatur Club for a Juvae Jazz Society ...
Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy. SYMPHONIC, ETC. Bartolc: Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano (Bela Bartok, piano; Joseph Szigeti, violin; Benny ...
Benny Goodman plays one of his signature songs in this clip from the 1982 North Sea Jazz Festival. Benny Goodman - Clarinet Scott Hamilton - Tenor Warren Vache - Cornet Chris Flory - Guitar Phil ...
Title on container: The famous 1938 Carnegie Hall jazz concert. Automatic sequence. Program notes ([3] p.) by Irving Kolodin on container. Performer(s): Jazz ensembles, featuring Benny Goodman, ...