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

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.

Swing along to the second performance ever of the Philharmonia Big Band, with conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali on drums. The ...

Viper Room, VIP Records, the Troubadour, Whisky a Go Go, Capitol Records, Hollywood Forever Cemetery: Here's a guided tour ...

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 ...

While an official cause of death has yet to be released, Signature Cruise Experiences confirmed Peplowski was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2021. The condition is a cancer that forms in a type of ...

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

In the late 1960s, he was tapped as dean of the CalArts School of Music, helping shape the school’s bold, interdisciplinary identity. CalArts welcomed its first students in 1969, held initial classes ...

The Star Wars storyline expansion and Williams background music are only coming to the West Coast version of Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland. The Batuu East version of Galaxy’s Edge at Disney’s Hollywood ...

When he was 12, Charles Hamilton saw Louis Armstrong on television—he thinks on The Ed Sullivan Show. That pivotal performance inspired him to tell his mother he wanted to play trumpet. It’s worked ...

In January 2012, 67-year-old mom and grandmother Barbara Scott began telling family members inconsistent stories about her 77-year-old husband Benny’s whereabouts. Killer Grannies airs Sundays at 8/7c ...