Also a saxophone standout, he served as stylistic bridge between the Benny Goodman swing era and the genre-blurring present.

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.

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