There's Buddy DeFranco, Dick DiBona (from Boston), Dick Johnson, (also Boston/RIP) & Ken Peplowski. What they all have in common is a compelling, strong, and unique clarinet delivery & sound! I've always marvelled at the fat, rotund, & cogent blast of musical artistry that emerges from peplowski's clari. His singular sound is total appassionata! There's a certain flowing, rhythmic, counterpoint to everything that he does and plays, (it seems) that warms as well as attracts listeners into a mode of a powerfully dramatic musical experience, from the swinging to the profound, the dramatic, the serene. Ken's music is exhilarating and uncompromising & certainly not impersonal. His music can deliver you into a more gentler mood. Try him... You'll like him!