{"id":7838,"date":"2016-09-19T05:58:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T12:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7838"},"modified":"2016-09-21T07:44:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T14:44:28","slug":"monday-recommendation-ken-peplowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/09\/monday-recommendation-ken-peplowski\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Ken Peplowski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ken Peplowski<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2cTgjJR\"target=\"_blank\">Enrapture<\/a> (Capri)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Enrapture.jpg\" alt=\"enrapture\" width=\"210\" height=\"182\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7839\" \/>Despite a playlist that seems to represent a grab bag of music, there is nothing scattershot about Ken Peplowski\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eclecticism. The clarinetist and tenor saxophonist with the capacious tone and imagination brings together Duke Ellington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s early-1940s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Flaming Sword,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lennon and Ono\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1970s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh, My Love,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Fats Waller\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Willow Tree,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a twelve tone piece by drummer Peter Erskine, and music from Bernard Hermann\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s score for the Hitchcock film <em>Vertigo<\/em>. There are other songs by Harry Warren, Barry Manilow, No\u00c3\u00abl Coward, Leslie Bricusse, and the title tune by the daring 1950s pianist and composer Herbie Nichols. Peplowski brings this all together in a program united by his musicianship and humor and his superb rhythm section&#8212;pianist Ehud Asherie, bassist Martin Wind and drummer Matt Wilson. You may find yourself going back to Peplowski\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s irrepressible clarinet solo in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Flaming Sword.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s addictive.       <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Peplowski, Enrapture (Capri) Despite a playlist that seems to represent a grab bag of music, there is nothing scattershot about Ken Peplowski\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eclecticism. The clarinetist and tenor saxophonist with the capacious tone and imagination brings together Duke Ellington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s early-1940s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Flaming Sword,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lennon and Ono\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1970s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh, My Love,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Fats Waller\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Willow Tree,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}