Ken Peplowski

Traditionalism revisited

by Piotr Michalowski

posted 7/1/2007

Good jazz seems to thrive on a tension between the future and the past, but stagnates when players only look back over their shoulders. Today, while the dull mainstream re-creates the 1950s and 1960s, there are musicians who, although they were just born then, take their cues from an earlier time. Among them, few can match the somewhat eccentric virtuosity of

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