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Gary George Peacock (May 12, 1935September 4, 2020) was an American
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. He recorded a dozen albums under his own name, and also performed and recorded with major jazz figures such as
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saxophonist
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, pianists
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,
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and
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, and as a part of
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’s “Standards Trio” with drummer
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. The trio existed for over thirty years, and recorded over twenty albums together. DeJohnette once stated that he admired Peacock's "sound, choice of notes, and, above all, the buoyancy of his playing."
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called Peacock a "sensitive musician with a great harmonic sense."


Early life

Peacock was born in Burley, Idaho, on May 12, 1935; his father worked as a business consultant for grocery stores, and his mother was a homemaker. He grew up in
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, where he attended Yakima Senior High School, now called A.C. Davis High School. His earliest musical experiences involved playing piano, trumpet, and drums. When he was 15, he heard live jazz for the first time, attending a ''
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'' concert featuring
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and Ray Brown. Peacock graduated in 1953; while playing for his class, he had a profound experience, stating: "I was playing the drums, and had the experience of being played rather than playing... I realized that something transformative had happened... and there was this certainty. From the bottom of my feet to the top of my head, it was totally clear: 'Oh, this is the direction to go.'" After graduating, Peacock attended the Westlake School of Music in
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but was then drafted into the Army. While stationed in Germany, he played piano in a jazz trio, but switched to bass when the group's bassist quit. Peacock recalled: "The bass player got married, and his wife didn’t want him out any more. The band’s drummer... said, 'You play bass.' I said, 'I don't want to play bass...' As it turned out, he found a pianist, and I started playing the bass." According to Peacock, he "just sort of figured it out": "I seemed to progress pretty rapidly in a very short time. And since I was stationed in Germany and there weren't any bass players anywhere, it allowed me to be available to play sessions with different people in Frankfurt and the surrounding areas." He also recalled: "The instrument felt natural. It just turned out to be a recognition, like, 'Oh, this is it. This is good.'"


Career

After being discharged from the Army in 1956, Peacock remained in Germany, playing with
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, Atilla Zoller, and others, before returning to Los Angeles. He recalled: "I had a standing invitation for a scholarship at Westlake College of Music. So I went to the school. They said, 'Great. Unfortunately, the school is closing.' So I had to start looking for gigs right away. That ended my scholarly education." His bass playing at the time was influenced by
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, Ray Brown, and
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, whom he befriended. He soon established himself as a bass player, participating in sessions with
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and
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, and, in 1962, recording with
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'' and '' Surging Ahead''), and
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''). He also married fellow musician
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(they later divorced) and began a musical association with pianist
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, with whom he would go on to record nine albums. While in California, Peacock heard the music of
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. Initially dismissive, he soon changed his mind: "It challenged that fixed position I had about what jazz improvisation should be and what the rules are. It created a pivot for me to embrace a much larger musical universe." Peacock reflected on how his thinking began to change:
I can remember when I was in Los Angeles about 1959 and I noticed that I was playing less time... In fact, playing the time became very irritating, it just felt like a straightjacket and I wanted to kind of break through that. I simply started listening in myself to what a bass could do and I just began to intentionally play out of time, with some notions, some glimmers of what could be done. I noticed that the time could literally be there and I could be playing something that was basically ametric and yet it worked in some way as far as my ears were concerned... An interesting question ame up What would happen if we didn't play the time but just allowed it to be there. Instead of going, 'dingdingding,' just allow it to be there and play something... It opened up something for the pianist, it opened up something for the drums.
In 1962, Peacock moved to New York, where he played with Bley and musicians such as
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,
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, George Russell, and
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. He also joined
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' trio, which included drummer
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, who would become a long-time associate, recording the album '' Trio 64'' with the group in December 1963. Peacock recalled that Evans' "sense of harmony was exquisite... The harmonies, and the way that he would voice the harmonies, made a melody not only believable but oyou wanted to fall in love with it. And because he played low, whatever the bass played, it could be heard; be an integral part of the music." In 1964, Peacock briefly joined
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' quintet, substituting for
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in April and May of that year. Reflecting on his time with Davis, he stated:
Miles probably said one of the most brilliant, useful, and necessary comments I've ever heard. Somebody was recording with him, and Miles looked at him and said, "What I want to hear is what you don't know." That is really the key: not playing what you know, playing what you don't know. To do that, you have to get very quiet inside, listen, and surrender to whatever that particular musical setting is. So it doesn't make any difference whether I'm playing standards or free stuff, because you're giving up any kind of fixed positions or attitudes you may have about what it should or shouldn't be. And to do that, you have to be vulnerable, to be in a place where you realize that what you're after, you cannot know. It's not conceivable. But it's there. It's the muse. So it's kind of a switch from the self playing the muse to the muse playing the self.
He also said that Davis "didn't miss one thing. He heard everything that was happening all the time. I could hear that he was hearing it. There was that kind of focus, that kind of attention, that kind of commitment to what's happening. It was a great experience, really a great lesson. Miles was a great teacher, without teaching." That year, he also appeared on Tony Williams' debut album, '' Life Time''. In 1964, Peacock joined
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's trio, which also featured drummer Sunny Murray, and went on to tour and record with him, appearing on the groundbreaking ''
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'' album among others. Regarding Ayler, Peacock stated:
I think he brought something that was so genuine and so natural and so authentic that it was unavoidable. If someone could get past their ideas about what something should be and just listen. It is incredible... He was definitely a major influence for me... He was about music, really, really about music and about continual development with the instrument, with technique, with all of that. So when he played it wasn't just squawks and beeps and honks and that kind of thing. He was really, he was coming from a real place. It was authentic. It was really him.
Peacock continued to record with Bley, Williams (''
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'', which also featured
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, Sam Rivers, and
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), and others until the late 1960s, when he began experiencing health problems. He reflected:
I was not in good shape. I was doing a lot of drugs and alcohol, and I was discontented with myself... I happened to meet with
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and... took
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. The result of that was realizing, number one, that I didn’t know who the hell I was, whereas before, I’d always identified myself as a musician, a bass player. Then, of course, came "Who am I?" I also noticed that this desire to play music wasn't there anymore. So the question was, what to do. So what I did was nothing. I stopped playing.
At this point, he decided to take a complete break from music. He recalled: "I got involved with
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and felt drawn to
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and medicine. I became a regular practitioner of macrobiotics and eventually moved to Japan for two and a half years, studying the language, history, and Oriental philosophy." Reflecting on studying the Japanese language, he stated: "There is a great lack of personal pronouns... And the effect that has... is after a time, there is a sense of spaciousness that opens up internally and externally." By 1970, while still in Japan, Peacock began to play again, recording ''Eastward'' in Tokyo with pianist
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and drummer
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, followed by '' Voices'' the next year. During this time he also recorded with
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(
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). In 1972, he returned to the United States and enrolled as a student at the
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, where he studied biology, graduating in 1976. He resumed his musical relationship with Bley, touring Japan and recording '' Japan Suite''. In 1977, he recorded '' Tales of Another'' with
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and
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; together, they would later become known as the ''Standards Trio'' due to their focus on jazz standards. This was followed by '' December Poems'', which features four solo bass pieces and two duets with saxophonist
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. From 1979 to 1983, Peacock also taught at the Cornish School of the Arts. Through the 1980s and '90s, Peacock released a number of albums under his own name, and also played and toured extensively with Jarrett and DeJohnette. He also performed and recorded with a trio known as ''Tethered Moon'', with
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and Motian, as well as recording with Bley, Garbarek,
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, and
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. Regarding the trio format, Peacock stated:
If three people share a common history in a particular area of music and they all found something in that music that freed them, when they get together to play a piece everyone is 100% in that composition... The question is, how much are you willing to give up to play this music? I don't think it can work if you still have an agenda, if you feel you still need to prove something musically. That's not the point – it's just about the music. So you're going to serve that, not yourself or somebody in the audience, not the critics or the reviewers. It's just the music. What does the music want?
The following decades saw Peacock continuing to play and record in the existing trio contexts, as well as with
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,
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, and
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, and with a new trio featuring
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and
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.


Death

Peacock died on September 4, 2020, at his home in
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. He was 85; the cause of death was undisclosed.


Attitude toward music

In a 2007 interview, Peacock stated:
I follow a practice that I've done for about ten years. I go through an actual daily practice of greeting the instrument, positioning myself with the instrument, paying attention to my posture, my breathing, the texture, the feeling of the instrument... Sometimes that takes seconds, sometimes it takes five minutes. Just getting a physical-sensory connection. The next thing is when I actually start playing, I don't lose that physical connection. To be completely aware of the sound that I'm playing and also what my feelings are about the sound of the instrument. Just paying attention. I don't try to do anything about it necessarily, but I just play, letting it be there. I might be playing an arpeggio or a melody, but basically the attention is on the sensory-emotional aspect of my playing. And then I let it go.
He also stated: "If you always wake up in the morning and realize, 'Oh my God, I'm just a beginner!,' then you're in a really good place. If you wake up in the morning and say, 'Oh, I've got that handled, I can do anything I want.' - hmm, I don't know." In another interview from 2010, Peacock said "If you've come close to death a few times or what you thought was death, you've realized there's no guarantee that you're going to be alive in the next instant. So my approach to playing is the realization that there are no guarantees anywhere. So where do I want to be, what kind of state to do I want to be in when I'm playing? It helped me to be really focused in a profound way and be really present." Peacock also discussed the relationship between music and his daily practice of
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(sitting meditation):
I think music actually prepared me in some ways in coming to zazen, because it was the only window in my life where I felt kind of a spiritual or religious sense. I looked at that, the essence of that and it was just bare awareness. Zazen is the same thing; it's a heightened sense of awareness. My daily
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is a quote from my Zen teacher, John Daido Loori, Roshi. I asked him one time, "What is Zen?" He said, "Just do what you're doing while you're doing it." It's so simple, but it's so hard!


Discography

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As leader

* ''Eastward'' (CBS/Sony, 1970) with
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,
Hiroshi Murakami is a Japanese jazz drummer. Murakami began playing percussion as a teenager, and was playing in a group with Takehiro Honda at age 19. He would go on to play with Masabumi Kikuchi, Kosuke Mine, and Sadao Watanabe in the 1970s, in addition to dr ...
* '' Voices'' (CBS/Sony, 1971) with
Masabumi Kikuchi was a Japanese jazz pianist and composer known for his unique playing style. He worked with many diverse musicians, including Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Gary Peacock and Paul Motian, and collaborated with Gil Evans a ...
,
Hiroshi Murakami is a Japanese jazz drummer. Murakami began playing percussion as a teenager, and was playing in a group with Takehiro Honda at age 19. He would go on to play with Masabumi Kikuchi, Kosuke Mine, and Sadao Watanabe in the 1970s, in addition to dr ...
,
Masahiko Togashi was a Japanese jazz percussionist and composer. Togashi grew up in a musical household; his father was a double-bassist in a swing jazz ensemble, and Togashi learned violin and drums, playing the latter in his father's band. He worked with Sadao ...
* '' Tales of Another'' (ECM, 1977) with
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,
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* '' December Poems'' (ECM, 1978) with
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* '' Shift in the Wind'' (ECM, 1980) with Art Lande, Eliot Zigmund * ''
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'' (ECM, 1982) with
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,
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,
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– recorded in 1981 * ''
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'' (ECM, 1987) with
Palle Mikkelborg Palle Mikkelborg (born 6 March 1941) is a Danish jazz trumpet player, composer, arranger and record producer. He is self-taught on the trumpet, although he studied conducting at the Royal Music Conservatory in Copenhagen. He became a professio ...
,
Jan Garbarek Jan Garbarek () (born 4 March 1947) is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist, who is also active in classical music and world music. Garbarek was born in Mysen, Østfold, southeastern Norway, the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war, Czesław ...
,
Peter Erskine Peter Erskine (born June 5, 1954) is an American jazz drummer who was a member of the jazz fusion groups Weather Report and Steps Ahead. Early life and education Erskine was born in Somers Point, New Jersey, U.S. He began playing the drum ...
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Oracle An oracle is a person or agency considered to provide wise and insightful counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by deities. As such, it is a form of divination. Description The word '' ...
'' (ECM, 1993) with
Ralph Towner Ralph Towner (born March 1, 1940) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. He plays the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion, trumpet and French horn. Biography Towner was born i ...
* '' Just So Happens'' (
Postcards A postcard or post card is a piece of thick paper or thin cardboard, typically rectangular, intended for writing and mailing without an envelope. Non-rectangular shapes may also be used but are rare. There are novelty exceptions, such as wood ...
, 1994) with
Bill Frisell William Richard Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is an American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger. Frisell first came to prominence at ECM Records in the 1980s, as both a session player and a leader. He went on to work in a variety of contexts ...
* '' A Closer View'' (ECM, 1998) with
Ralph Towner Ralph Towner (born March 1, 1940) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. He plays the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion, trumpet and French horn. Biography Towner was born i ...
– recorded in 1995 * '' Now This'' (ECM, 2015) with
Marc Copland Marc or MARC may refer to: People * Marc (given name), people with the first name * Marc (surname), people with the family name Acronyms * MARC standards, a data format used for library cataloging, * MARC Train, a regional commuter rail system o ...
,
Joey Baron Bernard Joseph Baron (born June 26, 1955 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American avant-garde jazz drummer who plays frequently with Bill Frisell and John Zorn. Music career Baron was born on June 26, 1955, in Richmond Virginia. When he was nine, ...
* ''
Tangents In geometry, the tangent line (or simply tangent) to a plane curve at a given point is the straight line that "just touches" the curve at that point. Leibniz defined it as the line through a pair of infinitely close points on the curve. More ...
'' (ECM, 2017) with
Marc Copland Marc or MARC may refer to: People * Marc (given name), people with the first name * Marc (surname), people with the family name Acronyms * MARC standards, a data format used for library cataloging, * MARC Train, a regional commuter rail system o ...
,
Joey Baron Bernard Joseph Baron (born June 26, 1955 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American avant-garde jazz drummer who plays frequently with Bill Frisell and John Zorn. Music career Baron was born on June 26, 1955, in Richmond Virginia. When he was nine, ...


As a member

Tethered Moon
Trio with
Masabumi Kikuchi was a Japanese jazz pianist and composer known for his unique playing style. He worked with many diverse musicians, including Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Gary Peacock and Paul Motian, and collaborated with Gil Evans a ...
and
Paul Motian Stephen Paul Motian (March 25, 1931 – November 22, 2011) was an American jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer. Motian played an important role in freeing jazz drummers from strict time-keeping duties. He first came to prominence in the ...
* '' First Meeting'' (
Winter & Winter Winter & Winter is a record label in Munich, Germany that specializes in jazz, classical and improvised music. It was founded by Stefan Winter following the demise of his JMT Records label. Since 1997 Winter & Winter has released records by Da ...
, 1997) – recorded in 1990-91 * ''Tethered Moon'' (King/Paddle Wheel, 1992) * ''Triangle'' (King/Paddle Wheel, 1993) * ''
Tethered Moon Play Kurt Weill ''Tethered Moon Play Kurt Weill'' is an album by the group Tethered Moon, comprising pianist Masabumi Kikuchi, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Paul Motian, recorded in late 1994 and released on the JMT label.Shimada, T.JMT label discography acce ...
'' ( JMT, 1995) – reissued on (Winter & Winter, 2005) * ''
Chansons d’Édith Piaf A (, , french: chanson française, link=no, ; ) is generally any lyric-driven French song, though it most often refers to the secular polyphonic French songs of late medieval and Renaissance music. The genre had origins in the monophonic s ...
'' (Winter & Winter, 1999) * '' Experiencing Tosca'' (Winter & Winter, 2004)


As sideman

With
Albert Ayler Albert Ayler (; July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer. After early experience playing R&B and bebop, Ayler began recording music during the free jazz era of the 1960s. Howev ...
* '' Ghosts'' (Debut, 1964 965 * ''
Prophecy In religion, a prophecy is a message that has been communicated to a person (typically called a ''prophet'') by a supernatural entity. Prophecies are a feature of many cultures and belief systems and usually contain divine will or law, or prete ...
'' (ESP-Disk, 1964
975 Year 975 ( CMLXXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * Arab–Byzantine War: Emperor John I raids Mesopotamia and invades Syria, using ...
* ''Albert Smiles With Sunny'' (InRespect, 1964
996 Year 996 ( CMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Japan * February - Chotoku Incident: Fujiwara no Korechika and Takaie shoot an arrow at Retired Em ...
* ''
New York Eye and Ear Control ''New York Eye and Ear Control'' is an album of group improvisations recorded in July 1964 by an augmented version of Albert Ayler's group to provide the soundtrack for Michael Snow's film of the same name. Background ''New York Eye and Ear Cont ...
'' (ESP-Disk, 1964 965 * ''
Spiritual Unity ''Spiritual Unity'' is a studio album by American free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler. It was recorded on July 10, 1964 in New York City, and features bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Sunny Murray. It was the first album recorded for Bernard Stollm ...
'' (ESP-Disk, 1965) * ''
Spirits Rejoice ''Spirits Rejoice'' is a live album by American free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler recorded in New York City in 1965 and first released on the ESP-Disk label.
'' (ESP-Disk, 1965) * '' The Copenhagen Tapes'' (Ayler Records, 1964
002 002, 0O2, O02, OO2, or 002 may refer to: Fiction *002, fictional British 00 Agent *''002 Operazione Luna'', *1965 Italian film *Zero Two, a ''Darling in the Franxx'' character Airports *0O2, Baker Airport *O02, Nervino Airport Astronomy *1996 ...
* ''
The Hilversum Session ''The Hilversum Session'' is an album by American free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler recorded at a radio studio in Hilversum, The Netherlands on November 9, 1964 and first released in 1980 on the now-defunct Dutch Osmosis label. It was later re-r ...
'' (Osmosis Records, 1964, 980 * '' Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962–70)'' (compilation: Revenant Records, 2004) With
Paul Bley Paul Bley, CM (November 10, 1932 – January 3, 2016) was a jazz pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing and his early live performance on the Moog and ...
* '' Virtuosi'' (Improvising Artists, 1976) with
Barry Altschul Barry Altschul (born January 6, 1943, New York City) is a free jazz and hard bop drummer who first came to notice in the late 1960s for performing with pianists Paul Bley and Chick Corea. Biography Altschul is of Russian Jewish heritage, the s ...
– recorded in 1967 * '' Mr. Joy'' (Limelight, 1968) * '' Paul Bley with Gary Peacock'' (ECM, 1970) * ''
Ballads A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French ''chanson balladée'' or '' ballade'', which were originally "dance songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and ...
'' (ECM, 1971) * ''
Turning Point A turning point, or climax, is the point of highest tension in a narrative work. Turning Point or Turning Points may refer to: Film * ''The Turning Point'', a 1914 silent film starring Caroline Cooke * ''The Turning Point'' (1920 film), an Ame ...
'' (Improvising Artists, 1975) * '' Japan Suite'' (Improvising Artists, 1977) * '' Partners'' (Owl, 1989) * '' In the Evenings Out There'' (ECM, 1991) * ''
Annette Annette may refer to: Film and television * '' Walt Disney Presents: Annette'', 1950s television series * ''Annette'' (film), a 2021 musical film Other * Annette (given name), list of people with the name * Annette Island, Alaska * Tropical Stor ...
'' (Hat ART, 1993) * '' Not Two, Not One'' (ECM, 1998) With
Marc Copland Marc or MARC may refer to: People * Marc (given name), people with the first name * Marc (surname), people with the family name Acronyms * MARC standards, a data format used for library cataloging, * MARC Train, a regional commuter rail system o ...
* '' My Foolish Heart'' (Jazz City, 1988) with John Abercrombie,
Jeff Hirshfield Jeffrey Lee Hirshfield (born August 22, 1955) is an American jazz drummer. Hirshfield was born in New York City. He studied under Ed Soph. He worked for the Joffrey Ballet in 1976–1977 and then played with Mose Allison (1977–1979). During th ...
* ''All Blues at Night'' (Jazz City, 1989) with
Tim Hagans Tim Hagans (born August 19, 1954) is an American jazz trumpeter, arranger, and composer. He has been nominated for three Grammy Awards: Best Instrumental Composition for "Box of Cannoli" on ''The Avatar Sessions'' (Fuzzy Music, 2010); Best Contem ...
, Bill Stewart * ''At Night (album), At Night'' (Sunnyside, 1992) with
Billy Hart Billy Hart (born November 29, 1940) is an American jazz drummer and educator. He is known internationally for his work with Herbie Hancock's "Mwandishi" band in the early 1970s, as well with Shirley Horn, Stan Getz, and Quest, among others. Bi ...
* ''Paradiso'' (Soul Note, 1995) with
Billy Hart Billy Hart (born November 29, 1940) is an American jazz drummer and educator. He is known internationally for his work with Herbie Hancock's "Mwandishi" band in the early 1970s, as well with Shirley Horn, Stan Getz, and Quest, among others. Bi ...
* ''Softly (1998 album), Softly'' (Savoy, 1998) with
Mike Brecker Michael Leonard Brecker (March 29, 1949 – January 13, 2007) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. He was awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Berklee College of ...
,
Tim Hagans Tim Hagans (born August 19, 1954) is an American jazz trumpeter, arranger, and composer. He has been nominated for three Grammy Awards: Best Instrumental Composition for "Box of Cannoli" on ''The Avatar Sessions'' (Fuzzy Music, 2010); Best Contem ...
,
Joe Lovano Joseph Salvatore Lovano (born December 29, 1952)"Joe Lovano." ''Contemporary Musicians''. Vol. 13. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 1994. Retrieved via ''Biography in Context'' database, May 5, 2017. is an American jazz saxophonist, alto clarin ...
, Bill Stewart * ''What It Says'' (Sketch, 2004) * ''Modinha - New York Trio Recordings Vol. 1'' (Pirouet, 2006) trio with Bill Stewart * ''Voices - New York Trio Recordings Vol. 2'' (Pirouet, 2007) trio with
Paul Motian Stephen Paul Motian (March 25, 1931 – November 22, 2011) was an American jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer. Motian played an important role in freeing jazz drummers from strict time-keeping duties. He first came to prominence in the ...
* ''Insight'' (Pirouet, 2009) With
Marilyn Crispell Marilyn Crispell (born March 30, 1947) is an American jazz pianist and composer. Scott Yanow described her as "a powerful player... who has her own way of using space... She is near the top of her field." Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrot ...
* '' Nothing Ever Was, Anyway: Music of Annette Peacock'' (ECM, 1997) * ''
Amaryllis ''Amaryllis'' () is the only genus in the subtribe Amaryllidinae (tribe Amaryllideae). It is a small genus of flowering bulbs, with two species. The better known of the two, ''Amaryllis belladonna'', is a native of the Western Cape region of ...
'' (ECM, 2000) * '' Azure'' (ECM, 2013) * '' In Motion'' (Intakt, 2016) With
Clare Fischer Douglas Clare Fischer (October 22, 1928 – January 26, 2012) was an American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. After graduating from Michigan State University (from which, five decades later, he would receive an honorary doctorate ...
* ''
First Time Out ''First Time Out'' is an American sitcom television series that aired on The WB. Originally holding the working title ''Girlfriends'' and described as a "Latino ''Living Single''". The series premiered on September 10, 1995, and last aired an ori ...
'' (Pacific Jazz, 1962) * '' Surging Ahead'' (Pacific Jazz, 1962) With
Toninho Horta Antônio Maurício Horta de Melo (born December 2, 1948) is a Brazilian jazz guitarist and vocalist. In addition to composing and performing his own work, Horta has worked for many years as arranger or sideman for Brazilian artists such as El ...
* ''Once I Loved'' (Verve, 1992) * ''From Ton To Tom'' (VideoArts Music, 1998) With
Keith Jarrett Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945) is an American jazz and classical music pianist and composer. Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey and later moved on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s, he has also been a ...
* '' Standards, Vol. 1'' (ECM, 1983) * '' Standards, Vol. 2'' (ECM, 1983) * ''
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'' (ECM, 1984) – recorded in 1983 * '' Standards Live'' (ECM, 1986) – recorded in 1985 * '' Still Live'' (ECM, 1989) – recorded in 1986 * '' Changeless'' (ECM, 1989) – recorded in 1987 * ''
Tribute A tribute (; from Latin ''tributum'', "contribution") is wealth, often in kind, that a party gives to another as a sign of submission, allegiance or respect. Various ancient states exacted tribute from the rulers of land which the state conqu ...
'' (ECM, 1990) – recorded in 1989 * ''
The Cure The Cure are an English Rock music, rock band formed in 1978 in Crawley, Crawley, West Sussex. Throughout numerous lineup changes since the band's formation, guitarist, lead vocalist, and songwriter Robert Smith (musician), Robert Smith has re ...
'' (ECM, 1991) – recorded in 1990 * ''
Bye Bye Blackbird "Bye Bye Blackbird" is a song published in 1926 by Jerome H. Remick and written by composer Ray Henderson and lyricist Mort Dixon. It is considered a popular standard and was first recorded by Sam Lanin's Dance Orchestra in March 1926. Song in ...
'' (ECM, 1993) – recorded in 1991 * ''
At the Deer Head Inn ''At the Deer Head Inn'' is a live album by American pianist Keith Jarrett with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian recorded in concert in September 1992 in Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania at the Deer Head Inn and released by ECM Records in 1994. Th ...
'' (ECM, 1994) – recorded in 1992 * '' Standards in Norway'' (ECM, 1995) – recorded in 1989 * ''
Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note ''Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note'' ''The complete recordings'' is a 6-CD box set live album by Keith Jarrett's Standards Trio recorded at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City in 1994 and released by ECM Records in October 1995. Totaling mor ...
'' (ECM, 1995) – recorded in 1994 * '' Tokyo '96'' (ECM, 1998) – recorded in 1996 * '' Whisper Not'' (ECM, 2000) – recorded in 1999 * '' Inside Out'' (ECM, 2001) – recorded in 2000 * ''
Always Let Me Go ''Always Let Me Go'' is a live album by American pianist Keith Jarrett's "Standards Trio" featuring Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette recorded in concert in April 2001 at the Bunkamura Orchard Hall and Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, in Japan and released ...
'' (ECM, 2002) – recorded in 2001 * '' Up for It'' (ECM, 2003) – recorded in 2002 * '' The Out-of-Towners'' (ECM, 2004) – recorded in 2001 * '' My Foolish Heart'' (ECM, 2007) – recorded in 2001 * '' Yesterdays'' (ECM, 2009) – recorded in 2001 * '' Somewhere'' (ECM, 2013) – recorded in 2009 * '' After the Fall'' (ECM, 2018) – recorded in 1998 With Robert Kaddouch * 53rd Street (Odradek, 2016) * High Line (Odradek, 2016) With
Bud Shank Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank Jr. (May 27, 1926 – April 2, 2009) was an American alto saxophonist and flautist. He rose to prominence in the early 1950s playing lead alto and flute in Stan Kenton's Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra and thro ...
* ''
Holiday in Brazil ''Holiday in Brazil'' (also released as ''Brazilliance Vol. 2'') is an album by saxophonist Bud Shank with arrangements by Laurindo Almeida released on the Pacific Jazz label.Edwards, D., Eyries, P. and Callahan, M.World Pacific Album Discography ...
'' (World Pacific, 1958) with
Laurindo Almeida Laurindo Almeida (September 2, 1917 – July 26, 1995) was a Brazilian guitarist and composer in classical, jazz, and Latin music. He and Bud Shank were pioneers in the creation of bossa nova. Almeida was the first guitarist to receive Gra ...
* '' Latin Contrasts'' (World Pacific, 1958) with Laurindo Almeida * ''
Slippery When Wet ''Slippery When Wet'' is the third studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi. It was released on August 18, 1986, by Mercury Records in North America and Vertigo Records internationally. It was produced by Bruce Fairbairn, with recording sess ...
'' (World Pacific, 1959) * '' New Groove'' (Pacific Jazz, 1961) * '' Barefoot Adventure'' (Pacific Jazz, 1961) With Tony Williams * '' Life Time'' (Blue Note, 1964) * ''
Spring Spring(s) may refer to: Common uses * Spring (season) Spring, also known as springtime, is one of the four temperate seasons, succeeding winter and preceding summer. There are various technical definitions of spring, but local usage of ...
'' (Blue Note, 1966) – recorded in 1965 With others *
Franck Amsallem Franck Amsallem is a French-American jazz pianist, arranger, composer, singer and educator. He was born in 1961 in Oran, French Algeria, but grew up in Nice, France. Early years Amsallem was born in Oran (Algeria) to Elie Amsallem (1922-2019) a ...
, ''Out a Day'' (OMD, 1990) also with Bill Stewart * Bill Carrothers, ''Home Row'' (Pirouet) also with Bill Carrothers, Bill Stewart *
Chick Corea Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021) was an American jazz composer, pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain", " 500 Miles High", "La Fiesta", "Armando's Rhumba", and ...
, ''Live In Montreux'' (GRP, 1981) also with
Joe Henderson Joe Henderson (April 24, 1937 – June 30, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than four decades, Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent l ...
and
Roy Haynes Roy Owen Haynes (born March 13, 1925) is an American jazz drummer. He is among the most recorded drummers in jazz. In a career lasting over 80 years, he has played swing, bebop, jazz fusion, avant-garde jazz and is considered a pioneer of jazz ...
* Lowell Davidson, ''Lowell Davidson Trio'' (ESP-Disk, 1965) *
Don Ellis Donald Johnson Ellis (July 25, 1934 – December 17, 1978) was an American jazz trumpeter, drummer, composer, and bandleader. He is best known for his extensive musical experimentation, particularly in the area of time signatures. Later in his lif ...
, ''
Essence Essence ( la, essentia) is a polysemic term, used in philosophy and theology as a designation for the property or set of properties that make an entity or substance what it fundamentally is, and which it has by necessity, and without which it ...
'' (Pacific Jazz, 1962) *
Bill Evans William John Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who worked primarily as the leader of his trio. His use of impressionist harmony, interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, block ch ...
, '' Trio 64'' (Verve, 1963) *
Barney Kessel Barney Kessel (October 17, 1923 – May 6, 2004) was an American jazz guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Known in particular for his knowledge of chords and inversions and chord-based melodies, he was a member of many prominent jazz groups a ...
, ''Barney Kessel's Swingin' Party'' (Contemporary, 1963) – recorded in 1960 *
Prince Lasha William B. Lawsha, better known as Prince Lasha (), (September 10, 1929 – December 12, 2008) was an United States of America, American jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, baritone saxophonist, flautist, clarinetist and English horn player. Life a ...
and Sonny Simmons, ''
The Cry! ''The Cry!'' is an album by saxophonists Prince Lasha and Sonny Simmons which was recorded in late 1962 and released on the Contemporary label. Reception Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars with its review by Alex Henderson stating: "This albu ...
'' (Contemporary, 1962) * Misha Mengelberg, ''Driekusman Total Loss'' (VaraJazz (Netherlands), 1981) – recorded in 1964 * Don Pullen, ''New Beginnings (Don Pullen album), New Beginnings'' (Blue Note, 1988) * Ravi Shankar, ''Improvisations (Ravi Shankar album), Improvisations'' (World Pacific, 1962) * John Surman, ''Adventure Playground (album), Adventure Playground'' (ECM, 1991) *
Ralph Towner Ralph Towner (born March 1, 1940) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. He plays the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion, trumpet and French horn. Biography Towner was born i ...
, ''City of Eyes'' (ECM, 1988) *
Mal Waldron Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron (August 16, 1925 – December 2, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He started playing professionally in New York in 1950, after graduating from college. In the following dozen years or so Wa ...
, ''
First Encounter ''First Encounter'' is an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron and bassist Gary Peacock recorded in 1971 and released on the Japanese RCA Victor label.
'' (RCA Victor (Japan), 1971) * Jimmy Woods, ''Awakening!!'' (Contemporary, 1962) * Hōzan Yamamoto, ''Ginkai'' (Philips, Nihon Phonogram, 1971) also with
Masabumi Kikuchi was a Japanese jazz pianist and composer known for his unique playing style. He worked with many diverse musicians, including Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Gary Peacock and Paul Motian, and collaborated with Gil Evans a ...


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Gary Peacock on ECM Records

interview short film with Gary Peacock shortly before his death, filmed at his house in Olive, NY
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Peacock, Gary 1935 births 2020 deaths Avant-garde jazz musicians American jazz double-bassists Male double-bassists People from Burley, Idaho ECM Records artists Postcards Records artists Cornish College of the Arts faculty Musicians from Idaho 21st-century double-bassists 21st-century American male musicians American male jazz musicians Improvising Artists Records artists Intakt Records artists Pirouet Records artists