Ken Peplowski interviewed by Monk Rowe, Aspen, Colorado, October 10, 1997 [video]

Table of Contents: Biography -- Realities of road life/Learning from Sonny Stitt to deal with mediocre rhythm sections -- Booking his own gigs/Job insecurity -- Polka gig/Influences : Beatles, Elvis Costello, Ornette Coleman/Interpreting old tunes -- "Glamorous road life" with Buddy Morrow band -- Wild time on the road doing "Annie"/ Wedding gig with Buddy Tate, Mel Lewis and Steve Kuhn -- Benny Goodman : "obsessed with music"/Rehearsing internal rhythm -- "Benny played so good that night, ... we missed all our entrances" -- Conservative jazz party audiences -- Haggling for money on gigs -- Advice for young improvisers -- Rare classics/Collective improvisation -- Music critics and labeling -- Calls himself "an interpreter of songs"/Jingle date/Leaving "rough edges" in recordings -- Working with Sweets Edison/Promoters get to pretend to be bandleaders.