Birdland's 75th Birthday: Ken Peplowski Quintet and Orchestra "Bird with Strings" featuring Terell Stafford

Ken Peplowski (clarinet, tenor sax)
Terell Stafford (trumpet)
Glenn Zaleski (piano)
Peter Washington (bass)
Willie Jones III (drums)
+10-piece Orchestra

Cleveland native tenor saxophonist and clarinetist Ken Peplowski, "...arguably the greatest living jazz clarinetist," (BBC) presents "Bird With Strings" a  birthday celebration of Bird's best loved album - Charlie Parker with Strings, originally released in 1950. 

For this special engagement at Birdland the ensemble will perform the recorded arrangements as well as newly discovered and unheard arrangements commissioned by Charlie Parker from his favorite arrangers: Gerry Mulligan, John Carisi, George Russell, John Lewis, Mercer Ellington, Ed Herzog, Neal Hefti, from their recent release on Arbors Records: "Unheard Bird."