Saturday, 26 April 2008
Gary Peacock
Artist: Gary Peacock
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Voice From The Past - Paradigm
Year: 1982
Tracks: 6
Shift In The Wind
Year: 1981
Tracks: 7
A subtle plainly adventurous bassist, Gary Peacock's flexibleness and systematically creative ideas get been an plus to several significant groups. He was in the first-class honours degree situation a pianissimo player, playing in an Army band piece stationed in Deutschland in the late '50s. Peacock switched to bass in 1956, staying on in Federal Republic of Germany afterward his go off to play with Hans Koller, Scourge of God Zoller, Tony Walter Scott, and Bud Shank. In 1958 he moved to Los Angeles where he performed with Barney Kessel, Don Ellis, Dame Ellen Terry Josiah Willard Gibbs, Shorty Virginia Katherine McMath, and (some importantly) Alice Paul Bley, among others. After moving to Fresh House of York in 1962, Peacock worked with Card Sir Arthur John Evans (1962-1963), the Paul the Apostle Bley triplet, Jimmy Giuffre, Roland Kirk, and George III Ken Russell. In 1964, later on a brief genus Erolia minutilla with Miles Stuart Davis, Peacock started an association with Prince Albert Ayler in European Economic Community, in any case playing with Roswell Scardinius erythrophthalmus and Steve Lacy. Peacock alternated between Ayler and Paul Bley for a time and returned briefly to Miles Stuart Davis in the late '60s. After a geological period in Nihon (1969-1972), Peacock studied biology (1972-1976), worked with Bley, and off and on from the deep '70s has played (and recorded) in a ternion with Keith Jarrett and Manual laborer DeJohnette.