Peplowski, who died Feb. 2, started playing clarinet professionally at age 10 and went on to perform with the Benny Goodman ...

RECORDING OF “CHINA BOY” PERFORMED BY BENNY GOODMAN. Rachel Edelson: There's so much lore around that concert, as indeed there ought to be. Jon Hancock: It was busy outside of Carnegie Hall. Rachel ...

Also a saxophone standout, he served as stylistic bridge between the Benny Goodman swing era and the genre-blurring present.

He was a nice Jewish boy from Chicago, the son of a tailor from Warsaw, and he played the clarinet. The experienced jazz musicians aboard the excursion boat were skeptical of the slight, bespectacled ...