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.

The Chippewa Valley Jazz Orchestra welcomes renowned composer and musician John Raymond for a one-night event tonight. The CVJO got its start in 2008 and, outside of COVID shutdown, has ...

The acclaimed clarinetist and saxophonist Ken Peplowski died on Sunday, Feb. 1, during The Jazz Cruise '26 ...

MSU prof has had friendship for more than four decades with jazz icon Wynton Marsalis, who will lead Jazz at Lincoln Center ...

His passing came after a five-year battle with multiple myeloma, a cancer that begins in the plasma cells in the bone marrow, ...

After WWII, Powell moved to Hollywood to craft music for movies and cartoons, most notably the Tom and Jerry shorts. He made ...

The Monkees music came from the cream of contemporary songwriters in the ’60s in that period just before songwriters ...

Tuesday marked the 65th anniversary of “the day the music died.” In the early morning hours in 1959, a small airplane carrying early rock pioneers Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Richie Valens crashed ...

Today in Music History for Feb. 14: ...

Old-school New York deli etiquette was strict, fast, and oddly brilliant, and these throwback rules make modern ordering feel too easy.

At the Palm Springs International Jazz Festival, an instrument long consigned to the background becomes the through line of a century of jazz history — from New Orleans parades to fusion, funk and the ...