Peplowski, who died Feb. 2, started playing clarinet professionally at age 10 and went on to perform with the Benny Goodman ...
Also a saxophone standout, he served as stylistic bridge between the Benny Goodman swing era and the genre-blurring present.
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When the bass steps into the spotlight

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 ...
The famed composer-conductor appreciates the comfort he takes with the Cleveland Orchestra; the ease he feels working with musicians who he believes understand him.
MSU prof has had friendship for more than four decades with jazz icon Wynton Marsalis, who will lead Jazz at Lincoln Center ...
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 ...
Ken Peplowski, the beloved jazz clarinetist and saxophonist, has died. The musician was found dead at 66 on board the ...
Jazz musician Ken Peplowski was found dead on board the Celebrity Summit cruise ship on Sunday, Feb. 1. The clarinetist and ...
LOS ANGELES — Right-wing influencer Benny Johnson escalated his feud with Gavin Newsom, with a video he said showed a stretch of LA looking like “a third world hellscape” — just days after the ...
Few musicians have earned the status that Jim Ward has. Explosive live performances (including the occasional throwing of furniture) helped launch post-hardcore band At the Drive-In into rock stardom, ...
The couple's snowy getaway comes after they celebrated their first Christmas as husband and wife Kirsty Hatcher is an Associate Editor on the People.com Morning Team. She has been working at PEOPLE ...