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Bassist Gary Peacock played a major role in the development of avant-garde jazz. He has worked with the likes of Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry}, {{Barney Kessel, Don Ellis, Terry Gibbs, Shorty Rogers, the Paul Bley Trio, Jimmy Giuffre, Roland Kirk and George Russell, among others. His recorded output is enormous — ECM Records alone lists fifty-one CDs on which he is featured. He has collaborated frequently with Ralph Towner in duet format, and since the late '70s has played and recorded in a world-renowned trio with Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette.

Peacock was born in Burley, Idaho, on May 12, 1935; He grew up in Yakima, Washington, where he attended Yakima Senior High School. In school, he played piano, trumpet, and drums, When he was 15, he attended a Jazz at the Philharmonic concert featuring Oscar Peterson and Ray Brown.

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Keith Jarrett: The Old Country: More from the Deer Head Inn

Read "The Old Country: More from the Deer Head Inn" reviewed by Mario Calvitti


Già da alcuni anni l'attività pianistica di Keith Jarrett si è forzatamente interrotta per motivi legati alle condizioni di salute dell'artista, colpito da ictus, ma la sua musica continua a venire pubblicata con novità discografiche provenienti dagli archivi ECM, alternando le esecuzioni jazzistiche a quelle classiche con cadenza più o meno annuale. Questo nuovo album rappresenta un'aggiunta importante alla sua discografia, dando dopo 30 anni un seguito all'album At the Deer Head Inn con la pubblicazione di otto brani inediti ...

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Keith Jarrett: The Old Country: More from the Deer Head Inn

Read "The Old Country: More from the Deer Head Inn" reviewed by Jack Kenny


Keith Jarrett remarked as he listened to a tape of the session: “I think that you can hear on this tape, what jazz is all about." What did he mean? Was he reacting to criticisms of his long-form improvisations? Was it because he was in a small venue that prioritized jazz? Of course, you can hear “what jazz is all about." Major musicians accompanied him: bassist Gary Peacock, Paul Motian, a master drummer he had not played with ...

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Keith Jarrett: The Old Country: More from the Deer Head Inn

Read "The Old Country: More from the Deer Head Inn" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Ahhh... the Standards Trio returns to the Poconos, or more specifically, the century and a half old Deer Head Inn, the site of the great At the Deer Head Inn (ECM,1994), and rouses all spirits with The Old Country: More from the Deer Head Inn. Celebrating a set of circumstances--Keith Jarrett was sixteen when he first played at the Deer Head Inn and at the time of this renowned gig it had been sixteen years since last jamming ...

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Albert Ayler With Don Cherry: 1964 Recordings First Visit Completed

Read "1964 Recordings First Visit Completed" reviewed by John Eyles


In 2020 the ezz-thetics label released the two-disc CD European Recordings Autumn 1964 Revisited which comprised the six November 9th 1964 radio recordings made in Hilversum, the Netherlands, by the quartet of Albert Ayler, cornetist Don Cherry, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Sunny Murray, “Angels," “C.A.C.." “Ghosts." “Infant Happiness" (composed by Don Cherry), “Spirits" and “No Name." That album also contained nine other recordings by the same quartet, made in Copenhagen, Denmark, in September 1964. In 2016, the HATology label, ...

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The Cry!

Read "The Cry!" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci


This recording is, at first glance, a bit of an unusual choice by Craft Recording for its Contemporary Records Acoustic Sound Series audiophile vinyl series. Neither Prince Lasha (pronounced Lashay) nor Sonny Simmons make an appearance in Bill Kirchner's The Oxford Companion to Jazz (Oxford University Press, 2000). An earlier reviewer for AAJ allowed as how both players were talented, but probably understood no more about Ornette Coleman's theory of “harmolodics" than the average listener did. Skepticism or, indeed, lack ...

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Albert Ayler / Don Cherry: Albert Ayler With Don Cherry 1964 Recordings First Visit Completed

Read "Albert Ayler With Don Cherry 1964 Recordings First Visit Completed" reviewed by Chris May


It is possible that in his liner notes for this album, Brian Morton has unraveled the riddle that is Albert Ayler. Was he a genius? A hoaxer? An outsider artist before the term was coined? A person in the grip of autism? An avant-gardist who decided to become a (whisper it) populist? A religious evangelist? A leather fetishist? An out-of-his-tree stoner? The list goes on, the speculation will continue, and it is permissible to tick multiple boxes, or none. But ...

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Francois Carrier Ensemble featuring Mat Maneri /Tomasz Stańko / Gary Peacock / Michel Lambert: Openness

Read "Openness" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Openness waited nearly two decades on a shelf (ok, probably on a hard drive) before being released for our listening pleasure. Recorded on May 5 & 6, 2006 at the Théâtre La Chapelle in Montréal, Canada, these three precious discs document a meeting between Canadian saxophonist François Carrier and Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stańko. It is the Polish label Fundacja Sluchaj to thank for this release and the prior disc Unwalled (2022), with Carrier being joined by Alexander von Schlippenbach, John ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gary Peacock

Jazz Musician of the Day: Gary Peacock

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Gary Peacock's birthday today!

Bassist Gary Peacock played a major role in the development of avant-garde jazz. He has worked with the likes of Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry}, {{Barney Kessel, Don Ellis, Terry Gibbs, Shorty Rogers, the Paul Bley Trio, Jimmy Giuffre, Roland Kirk and George Russell, among others. His recorded output is enormous — ECM Records alone lists fifty-one CDs on which he is featured. He has collaborated frequently with ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gary Peacock

Jazz Musician of the Day: Gary Peacock

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Gary Peacock's birthday today!

Bassist Gary Peacock played a major role in the development of avant-garde jazz. He has worked with the likes of Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry}, {{Barney Kessel, Don Ellis, Terry Gibbs, Shorty Rogers, the Paul Bley Trio, Jimmy Giuffre, Roland Kirk and George Russell, among others. His recorded output is enormous — ECM Records alone lists fifty-one CDs on which he is featured. He has collaborated frequently with ...

Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Gary Peacock

Jazz Musician of the Day: Gary Peacock

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Gary Peacock's birthday today!

Bassist Gary Peacock has played a major role in the development of avant-garde jazz. He has worked with the likes of Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Barney Kessel, Don Ellis, Terry Gibbs, Shorty Rogers, the Paul Bley Trio, Jimmy Giuffre, Roland Kirk and George Russell, among others. His recorded output is enormous — ECM Records alone lists thirty CDs on which he is featured. He has collaborated frequently ...

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Gary Peacock: West Coast (1959-62)

Gary Peacock: West Coast (1959-62)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Bassist Gary Peacock, who died in September of 2020, was probably best known for Trio '64, his sole album in 1963 with Bill Evans, as well as his work with Albert Ayler, Paul Bley, Marc Copland and Keith Jarrett. But before Trio '64, Peacock spent several years in Los Angeles working as a sideman. On the West Coast, Peacock emerged as part of a school of conversationalist bassists who didn't just keep time but were expected to engage with a ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gary Peacock

Jazz Musician of the Day: Gary Peacock

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Gary Peacock's birthday today!

Bassist Gary Peacock has played a major role in the development of avant-garde jazz. He has worked with the likes of Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Barney Kessel, Don Ellis, Terry Gibbs, Shorty Rogers, the Paul Bley Trio, Jimmy Giuffre, Roland Kirk and George Russell, among others. His recorded output is enormous — ECM Records alone lists thirty CDs on which he is featured. He has collaborated frequently ...

Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Gary Peacock

Jazz Musician of the Day: Gary Peacock

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Gary Peacock's birthday today!

Bassist Gary Peacock has played a major role in the development of avant-garde jazz. He has worked with the likes of Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Barney Kessel, Don Ellis, Terry Gibbs, Shorty Rogers, the Paul Bley Trio, Jimmy Giuffre, Roland Kirk and George Russell, among others. His recorded output is enormous — ECM Records alone lists thirty CDs on which he is featured... Read more.

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gary Peacock

Jazz Musician of the Day: Gary Peacock

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Gary Peacock's birthday today!

Bassist Gary Peacock has played a major role in the development of avant-garde jazz. He has worked with the likes of Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Barney Kessel, Don Ellis, Terry Gibbs, Shorty Rogers, the Paul Bley Trio, Jimmy Giuffre, Roland Kirk and George Russell, among others. His recorded output is enormous — ECM Records alone lists thirty CDs on which he is featured... Read more.

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gary Peacock

Jazz Musician of the Day: Gary Peacock

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Gary Peacock's birthday today!

Bassist Gary Peacock has played a major role in the development of avant-garde jazz. He has worked with the likes of Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Barney Kessel, Don Ellis, Terry Gibbs, Shorty Rogers, the Paul Bley Trio, Jimmy Giuffre, Roland Kirk and George Russell, among others. His recorded output is enormous — ECM Records alone lists thirty CDs on which he is featured... Read more.

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gary Peacock

Jazz Musician of the Day: Gary Peacock

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Gary Peacock's birthday today!

Bassist Gary Peacock has played a major role in the development of avant-garde jazz. He has worked with the likes of Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Barney Kessel, Don Ellis, Terry Gibbs, Shorty Rogers, the Paul Bley Trio, Jimmy Giuffre, Roland Kirk and George Russell, among others. His recorded output is enormous — ECM Records alone lists thirty CDs on which he is featured... Read more.

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gary Peacock

Jazz Musician of the Day: Gary Peacock

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Gary Peacock's birthday today!

Bassist Gary Peacock has played a major role in the development of avant-garde jazz. He has worked with the likes of Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Barney Kessel, Don Ellis, Terry Gibbs, Shorty Rogers, the Paul Bley Trio, Jimmy Giuffre, Roland Kirk and George Russell, among others. His recorded output is enormous — ECM Records alone lists thirty CDs on which he is featured... Read more.

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From the review of the album " Tangents"

"As a bassist, Gary Peacock has always been a stealth virtuoso. What he plays often requires phenomenal speed and facility, but the power and originality of his music invariably draw the listener’s attention away from Peacock’s technical prowess. Even though it opens with a remarkable solo statement that stretches from thumb position down to the lowest reaches of the fingerboard, ‘Tangents’ is unlikely to change that notion. […] the group’s defining character remains the all- in equality of its interplay, maintaining a creative balance between piano, bass and drums regardless of whether the music is conventionally structured, like Miles Davis’’Blue In Green’, or as open-ended as Peacock’s title tune." J.D

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