When one is diagnosed with multiple myeloma, as woodwind specialist Ken Peplowski was in June 2021, there are basically two alternatives: either accept the decision and throw in the towel or choose to ...

Clarinetist and saxophonist Ken Peplowski showcases jazz great Charlie Parker’s unrecorded, long-lost string arrangements for a Stanford Jazz Festival performance, accompanied by strings and woodwinds ...

Peplowski is an amazingly listenable player, who, on both clarinet and tenor, has one of the most instantly-pleasing sounds on all of the contemporary jazz scene... "I've been trying to get away from ...

A clarinetist and tenor saxophonist who is appearing at Birdland this week with his quartet, Ken Peplowski has a long tradition of traditions. For one thing, he’s been performing at New York venues ...

A committee chooses who’ll play A Place for Jazz, but for Friday’s season closer, they ceded that choice to President Emeritus Tim Coakley. A drummer and DJ himself, Coakley chose contemporaries, ...

A few years ago, I heard a young vocalist—I can’t remember her name, and it’s probably better that way—trying to sing “Here’s to Life.” This song by arranger-composer Artie Butler and lyricist Phyllis ...

Ken Peplowski leads a masterful quartet and orchestra in a celebration of Charlie Parker's landmark work, "Bird with Strings," featuring unheard arrangements. Joining him is special guest Eric ...

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 ...

CONCORD -- Enjoy the Big Band sounds of Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and Woody Herman as jazz clarinet master and Benny Goodman alumnus Ken Peplowski teams up with the Capital Jazz Orchestra for a 4 p.m.