Peplowski Blows Back to His Roots
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“At any given time, day or night, somebody, somewhere in the world, is telling a Benny Goodman story.”
That was how the cornetist Ruby Braff, who worked with Benny Goodman in the mid-1950s, described the celebrated clarinetist. Braff knew that musicians like to gossip, particularly about the people they work for. Indeed, Goodman, whose music will be celebrated this week at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola by the virtuoso clarinetist Ken Peplowski, has been increasingly recast in passing years by anecdotage concerning certain rather extreme personality traits, specifically his penuriousness, his callousness to the people around him, and his insensitivity to everything but music.
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