Ken Peplowski was not just the greatest clarinet player of his generation; he was a friend I admired for some 46 years"beginning well before he became famous. Oh, he did a bit of work outside of jazz on his way to the top. (He told me he witnessed far more hijinks of every sort when he did the musical "Annie" than he ever witnessed in the supposedly dissolute world of jazz.) But jazz was his first love. I found h…
