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Jazz Club Festival Presents Dick Hyman with Ken Peplowski and Kitt Moran
Ken Peplowski The late Mel Torme said, "Since the days of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic." This quote only hints at Ken Peplowski's virtuosity not only is he an outstanding clarinetist and saxophone player, but he's also a true gentleman and a charismatic entertainer who has been delighting audiences for many years with his warmth, wit and musicianship.
Ken Peplowski was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1959. He learned to play the clarinet as a young boy, listening to Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw and Jimmy Hamilton and played in school bands. He later worked with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra playing the alto sax. In the early 1980s, he moved to New York and became an in-demand musician. He was a member of Benny Goodman's last band, has worked and recorded with Hank Jones, Peggy Lee, George Shearing, Mel Torme, Howard Alden, Rosemary Clooney, James Moody, Dave Frishberg and has performed with Dick Hyman, Charlie Byrd, Milt Hinton, Kenny Davern and many others. He has recorded over 50 CDs as soloist and hundreds as a sideman. "Everything's a learning experience in jazz music there's always an element of the unpredictable." Among his acclaimed CDs are "The Natural Touch" in 1992, which won Best Jazz Record of the Year by the Prises Deutschen Schallplatten Kritiken and "The Other Portrait", recorded in Sophia, Bulgaria with the symphony orchestra and highlights Ken's classical side. Later recordings were "Lost In The Stars" and "Easy To Remember", the latter of which features Bobby Short on his last recording. In 2007, he received a lifetime achievement award at the Elkhart Jazz Festival. Ken has been the musical director for "The Jazz Cruise", the Oregon Festival of American Music, and the Eugene Oregon Jazz Festival. He also does many workshops for students of all ages- "My goal is to get the students to learn how to teach themselves, and to learn how to bring out their own best qualities; after all, jazz is about individuality -first you learn the rules, then you break them. I would like to think that I never stop learning, myself!"
Dick Hyman is an American jazz pianist/keyboardist and composer, best known for his versatility with jazz piano styles. Throughout a busy musical career that began in the early '50s, Dick Hyman has functioned as pianist, organist, arranger, music director, and composer. His versatility in all of these areas has resulted in film scores, orchestral compositions, concert appearances and well over 100 albums recorded under his own name and many more in support of other artists. While developing a masterful facility for improvisation in his own piano style, Mr. Hyman has also researched the earlier periods of jazz, including ragtime and recorded the piano music of Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson, Zez Confrey, Eubie Blake and Fats Waller. Other solo recordings include the music of Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Duke Ellington.
Mr. Hyman has served as artistic director for the acclaimed Jazz in July series at New York's 92nd Street Y for twenty years and for the annual Oregon Festival of American Music. He continues to perform concerts in the United States, Canada, and Europe.
In addition to his activities in the jazz and concert worlds, Mr. Hyman has had a prolific career in New York as a studio musician and won seven Most Valuable Player Awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He acted as music director for such television programs as Benny Goodman's final appearance (on PBS) and for In Performance at the White House. He received an Emmy for his original score for Sunshine's on the Way, a daytime drama, and another for musical direction of a PBS special on Eubie Blake. He is a member of the Jazz Hall of Fame of the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies and the New Jersey Jazz Society.
In years past, Dick Hyman was music director for numerous television and Broadway shows and has composed the musical score for more than a dozen Woody Allen films. Among his other movie scores are Moonstruck and Scott Joplin-King of Ragtime. In addition to the many movie scores, his music has also been heard in many other films
Kitt Moran, a NJ native; performed in top jazz clubs in NYC and NJ including Michael's Pub, the Village Vanguard, The Blue Note, Gregory's, Gulliver's, Trumpets and Shanghai Jazz; also Bally's, Las Vegas and many Atlantic City casinos. She opened shows for the likes of Jay Leno, Jackie Mason and Rodney Dangerfield. In 1992, she landed a six week gig at Resorts Hotel in Atlantic City working for Merv Griffiin. She worked at Resorts for eight years. While there, she performed for, sung with and been accompanied by an impressive list of stars: Burt Bacharach, Michelle LeGrand, Vic Damone, Rosemary Clooney, Jack Sheldon Frankie Randall, Buddy Greco, Johnny Hartman and of course, Merv, himself.
Kitt has recorded with Ron Carter, John Pizzarelli, Harry Allen, Jay Leonhard, Toots Theilemans and arrangers Don Sebesky and Charles Calello, among others.
Kitt is also an actress, playwright and an accomplished artist, having won many awards for her paintings. Married to jazz pianist Mike Moran; they perform regularly in Sarasota and Charlotte county.
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LocationRiverview Performing Arts Center
1 Ram Way
Sarasota, FL 34231
United States
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