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About Sunrise: Ken Peplowski Big Band
Product Description Two of Ken Peplowki's biggest inspirations in music have always been Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra and he recorded everything live with the band. Ken liked the adrenaline rush of that style of recording. Great musicians here who respond well under the pressure of recording, but they all play with individual sounds and styles. ''SUNRISE [Arbors Records] is KEN PEPLOWSKI latest big band effort and it is a beauty. This big band is loaded with many of NYC's finest jazz folk including Jon Gordon, John Allred, Bob Millikan, Jon-Erik Kellso, Randy Reinhart, Ehud Asherie, Chuck Redd and Nicki Parrott. As fine as that band may be, their solo talents are not exploited here, that juiciness remains the province of Peplowski. Over the 12 tracks [68:21] it is Peplowski who mostly takes the solo honors, there are exceptions to that rule, especially on The Eternal Triangle which sports several energetic solos. There is not much to fault here or say except if you don't love clarinet and mainstream big band you will not treasure this CD. Complimenting this production are Peplowski's liner notes.'' Bob Rusch -- Cadence Magazine 10/25/2018 NIGHT LIFE Ken Peplowski The clarinet basically died out as a leading jazz instrument after the bebop onslaught of the mid-forties, but a player like Peplowski makes you wonder why. With a tone like finely woven silk, wondrous technical agility, and an itching curiosity that encompasses the stylistic breadth of mainstream jazz, Peplowski can take his outsider horn in any direction he cares to. (He plays a galloping tenor saxophone as well.) Here, Peplowski lands himself in luxury by approaching both classic and overlooked work from the heyday of American popular song. Steve Futterman The New Yorker Review You want to hear some really smashing big band? Look no further. Peplowski leads on this date like it was recorded when labels paid attention to records like this. With a nonpareil crew backing him, the clarinet ace just plain delivers. The set card is mostly familiar, the presentation is original and one of a kind. The kind of stuff you love to show up for, this swinging set is simply going to make your day. Killer stuff throughout. Chris Spector --Midwest RecordRick's Pick I don't listen to big band music very much, I guess because I usually find it either anodyne or tiresome, and as a result I don t review it very much either. But I'll listen to any project that involves Ken Peplowski in any way, so when I saw he'd released a big band album as a leader I knew I had to get my hands on it. And it's wonderful, as anyone familiar with his work would expect. The program is all standards, and one of the pieces is a world premiere: an arrangement of ''When You Wish upon a Star'' by the song's composer, Alec Wilder, that was written for the Benny Goodman orchestra but never played or recorded before now. Peplowski is not only a brilliant clarinetist but also a generous and subtle bandleader, and this album is absolutely full of lovely moments and joyful swing. Strongly recommended to all libraries. Rick Anderson --CD HotList: New Releases for LibrariesClarinetist Ken Peplowski assembled the cream of the crop of mainstream swing players for this big band session. There's a fine mix of Great American Songbook material, some Braziliana, some bebop, a couple of Duke Ellington tunes, and even something from the Walt Disney songbook (''When You Wish Upon a Star'' from the 1950 movie Pinocchio) all featuring superb big-band arrangements. Peplowski's clarinet work gets most prominence here showcasing his instrumental mastery and clever ideas. There are also fine moments from his bandmates, including saxophonist Adrian Cunningham on Sonny Stitt's hard-driving bop classic ''The Eternal Triangle,'' Cunningham and trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso on the gorgeous but under-recorded Ellington composition ''I Like the Sunrise'' (hence the CD title), and alto saxophonist Jon Gordon on ''Come Back to Me.'' The real
