Gary Peacock

Gary Peacock is a Contrebassiste of American jazz, born the May 12th 1935, with Burley, in the Idaho, E. - U..

It starts the study of the piano, but also of the battery, at the school, in 1948. During its military service (in 1954, in Germany), he is pianist-bugliste of the orchestra of the regiment (and plays in a local small formation). Demobilized, he works as bass player in FRG. In 1958, it turns over to the United States, Los Angeles, where it works with musicians like Barney Kessel, Bud Shank, Art Pepper, Ravi Shankar but also Don Ellis, which presents Paul Bley to him. It Marie in 1960 with Annette Peacock.

It settles then with New York, where it collaborates with Paul Bley, belonged to the trio of Bill Evans (with Paul Motian), of the trio of Albert Ayler, with Sunny Murray. It makes also some concerts with Miles Davis, as a substitute of Ron Carter.

Towards end of the year 60, Peacock is withdrawn with the Japan, forsaking the music to study philosophy Zen. It returns to the United States in 1972, studies the Biologie with the Université of Washington, Seattle, and off teaches the theory of the music to the Cornish College the Arts of 1976 to 1983. It takes again the music and the composition, and forms duets with, in particular, Ralph Towner and Jan Garbarek.

Gary Peacock is especially known to be the bass player of the trio Standards of Keith Jarrett, created in 1983.

Its problems of accuracy in the acute one are due to an accident which damaged its tympanum, decreasing its capacities to hear the acute sounds correctly.

DISCOGRAPHY

1977 - Bruises off another with Keith Jarrett (piano) and Jack DeJohnette (battery) - ECM
1977 - December Poems with Jan Garbarek - ECM
1980 - Shift in the wind with Art Moor (piano) and Eliot Zigmund (battery) - ECM
1987 - Guamba , with Jan Garbarek - ECM

References

Bibliographer

Dictionary of the jazz of Philippe Carles, Andre Clergeat, Jean-Louis Comolli (Editions Robert Laffont - 1988)

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