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News: Award / Grant

JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards - Join Us!

JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards - Join Us!

Mark your calendar! 13th Annual JJA Jazz Awards June 16, 2009 3:00-6:00pm at The Jazz Standard 116 E. 27th Street New York, NY Join us at the JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards as we... Announce our 2009 award winners (see nominees below) Honor winners and nominees ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Venus Records

Read "Venus Records" reviewed by Ken Dryden

by Ken Dryden

Venus Records may be sparsely represented in North American record stores, though it has built quite a loyal following among jazz aficionados who frequent online music sources. Tetsuo Hara, the owner and founder of the label, has long been a jazz fan: “When I was a very young man, I listened to many 78-rpm records that ...

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Article: Album Review

Ken Peplowski / Jesper Thilo: Happy Together - Live At Birdland Volume One

Read "Happy Together - Live At Birdland Volume One" reviewed by Andrew Velez

by Andrew Velez

Ken Peplowski and Jesper Thilo have much more in common than the solid expertise of each on both tenor saxophone and clarinet as demonstrated here. The two effortlessly and authentically bring the Swing Era to vibrant life anew. With “Peps," who began his professional career with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, one has only to hear the ...

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Doodle Oodle

By Alan Barnes

Label: Woodville Records
Released: 2008

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Gypsy Lamento

By Ken Peplowski

Label: Venus Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Topsy; Anouman; Crepuscle; Tears; I'm Confessin'; Minor Swing; Solitude; Nympheus; Please; Nuages; I've Had My Moments; Time On My Hands.

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Article: Album Review

Ken Peplowski Gypsy Jazz Band: Gypsy Lamento

Read "Gypsy Lamento" reviewed by Martin Longley

by Martin Longley

This is a gypsy combo of the Django Reinhardt persuasion, rather than being fully-crazed wedding party cacophony. In fact, reedman Ken Peplowski makes matters even more specialized by concentrating on a preponderance of slow plodders rather than the frenetic hurtling that many gypsy jazz guitar outfits now prefer. The album's cover is slightly strange. Two pseudo-brides ...

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Article: Interview

Ken Peplowski: Clarinet Conqueror

Read "Ken Peplowski: Clarinet Conqueror" reviewed by Ken Dryden

by Ken Dryden

Ken Peplowski has been a busy player on the jazz scene since joining the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (directed by Buddy Morrow) in 1978. A gifted clarinetist and tenor saxophonist, he met Sonny Stitt while still with the Dorsey band, ended up studying sax with him and landed a dream job playing in Benny Goodman's final orchestra ...

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Article: Profile

Ken Peplowski: Good Times On the Road For Reed Virtuoso

Read "Ken Peplowski: Good Times On the Road For Reed Virtuoso" reviewed by Larry Taylor

by Larry Taylor

This is the best of times for jazz musician Ken Peplowski, renowned clarinet and tenor saxophonist. So good, in fact it was difficult for him to find time to talk by phone in June. Having just returned from playing dates in Italy, he was in the midst of performing in New York's ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Ken Peplowski Quartet Friday & Saturday , January 4-5 at Kitano 2 Sets - 8:00 PM & 10:00 PM

Ken Peplowski Quartet Friday  & Saturday , January 4-5 at Kitano 2 Sets - 8:00 PM & 10:00 PM

Friday & Saturday, January 4-5, 2008 Ken Peplowski Quartet with Jay Leonhart-bass, Ted Rosenthal-piano, Tom Melito-drums At Kitano 66 Park Avenue (at 38th St.) New York City 212-885-7119 2 SETS - 8:00 PM & 10:00 PM $25 FRI./SAT. - $15 MIN./SET The ...

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The Other Portrait

By Ken Peplowski

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 1996
Track listing: Milestones/Anthropology; Dance Preludes (For Clarinet And Orchestra): Allegro Molto; Dance Preludes: Andantino; Dance Preludes: Allegro Giocoso; Dance Preludes: Andante; Dance Preludes: Allegro Molto; Single Petal Of A Rose; Concerto For Clarinet & Orchestra (To Benny Goodman): Anime; Concerto For Clarinet & Orchestra (To Benny Goodman): Tres Decide; Concerto For Clarinet & Orchestra (To Benny Goodman): Lent; Concerto For Clarinet & Orchestra (To Benny Goodman): Final - Anime; Cadenza; Lonely Woman; Duet.


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