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.

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 ...

Though many have tried to argue the opposite to Nathan Tokunaga, the clarinet is a key instrument played in classic jazz ensembles — and he wants to educate others on just that. Tokunaga, a first year ...

For more than 30 years, fans knew they could generally find clarinetist Doreen Ketchens busking on the corner of Royal and St. Peters streets in the heart of New Orleans's jazz district. When she wasn ...

Five accomplished jazz musicians and band leaders from St. Tammany Parish and New Orleans all come together for the first ...

Today, the Spotlight shines on clarinetist Glenn Dickson and electronic musician Bob Familiar. When a cutting-edge klezmer artist meets a former rock synthesist, you might expect creative tension.

For most professional jazz musicians the jazz life is a labor of love—endless gigs over countless miles, early morning starts and early morning finishes. It is not all glamour, and the bills have to ...