Acclaimed jazz musician Ken Peplowski was discovered dead aboard a Celebrity Summit cruise ship this week after missing a scheduled performance ... Peplowski was slated to play on the cruise beside a quartet in the late afternoon, but failed to show up.
His passing came after a five-year battle with�multiple myeloma, a cancer that begins in the plasma cells in the bone marrow, according to a friend of his ....
Famed jazz musician Ken Peplowski has passed away at the age of 66. And while he had been battling an illness, Peplowski’s died not at home or in a hospital — but out at sea.