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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even if you are new to jazz, you have likely heard "All the Things You Are" dozens of times, maybe hundreds. But you have never heard it like this. Jerome Kern's tour through the circle of fifths, ...

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 ...