Concord Duo Series Vol 3

Ken Peplowski, Howard Alden | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 25, 1993)
• Original Release Date: April 29, 1993
• Label: Concord Records
• ASIN: B0000006LY
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #219,816 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Blue Room

2. [Spoken Introduction]

3. Why

4. Changes

5. [Spoken Introduction]

6. Chasin' the Bird

7. Deep Purple

8. You're My Everything

9. S'posin'

10. Two Not One

11. If I Should Lose You

12. In the Dark

13. Just One of Those Things

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Swingin' Friends, July 12, 2001

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Steve Emerine (Tucson, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Concord Duo Series Vol 3 (Audio CD)

Clarinetist and tenor saxophonist Ken Peplowski and guitarist Howard Alden are good friends and great musicians, so Concord's decision to pair the two on this live CD from Maybeck Recital Hall was a natural. In just over an hour, Alden and Peplowski romp through 11 standards by such diverse composers as Rodgers and Hart ("Blue Room"), Charlie Parker ("Chasin' the Bird"), Cole Porter ("Just One of Those Things"), Bix Biederbecke ("In the Dark"), Rainger and Robin ("If I Should Lose You"), Denniker and Razaf ("S'posin'") and DeRose and Parish ("Deep Purple"). Their play and their comments show they had fun recording the tunes. You'll have even more fun listening to them.

5.0 out of 5 stars What's Not to Like, August 22, 2008

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Gary L. Connely (Hercules, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Concord Duo Series Vol 3 (Audio CD)

Take Ken Peplowski, the best jazz clarinetist playing today; hook him up with Howard Alden, a masterful guitarist; give them a set of songs ranging from Jelly Roll Morton's "Why," to Lennie Tristano's "Two Not One," from Bix Beiderbecke's, "In the Dark," to Charlie Parker's "Chasin' the Bird;" put 'em in the Maybeck Recital Hall, (a redwood-lined performance space that barely seated 50 enthralled jazz lovers); and what do you get? You get this album!

Albums like this are the reason that record companies go to the trouble of recording live music. The musicians are "simpatico;" the playing is uniformly inventive and technically excellent; the song selection nigh on perfect; Messrs Peplowski and Alden and the audience have a great time; and the sonics, (courtesy of Concord's field recording team), are excellent. What's not to like? And hey, you just can't have too many clarinet/guitar duos in your CD collection.