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Infobox musical artist | name = Gary Peacock| image = Gary Peacock photo.jpg| caption = Jazz double-bassist Gary Peacock performing live in July 2003.| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| birth_name = Gary Peacock| birth_date = Birth date and age|1935|5|12|df=y|birth_place = Burley, Idaho , United States | death_date =| instrument = Double bass | genre = Jazz | occupation = Double bassist | years_active =| associated_acts =| website =Gary Peacock (born May 12, 1935 in Burley, Idaho ) is an United States|American jazz double-bassist .Allmusic|class=artist|id=p7304|pure_url=yes Allmusic
Biography
After military service in Germany , in the early sixties he worked on the west coast with Barney Kessel , Bud Shank , Paul Bley and Art Pepper , then moved to New York . He worked there with Bley, the Bill Evans trio (with Paul Motian ), and Albert Ayler 's trio with Sunny Murray . There were also some live dates with Miles Davis , as a temporary substitute for Ron Carter .
Peacock spent time in Japan in the late 1960s, abandoning music temporarily and studying Zen philosophy. After returning to the United States in 1972, he studied Biology at the University of Washington in Seattle , and taught music theory at Cornish College of the Arts from 1976 to 1983.
In 1983 he joined Keith Jarrett 's " StandardsTrio " with Jack DeJohnette (the three musicians had previously recorded Tales of Another in 1977 for ECM Records , under Peacock's leadership). Among the trios albums are Standards (Jarrett album)| Standards, Vol. 1 and Standards, Vol. 2 and Standards Live . The trio continues to perform and record all around the world. Playing together for nearly 25 years now, Jarrett, Peacock and DeJohnette have developed a reputation as one of the most preeminent jazz trios of our time.
Was previously married to fellow musician Annette Peacock .
Discography
As leader
Tales of Another (ECM, 1977)
December Poems (ECM; 1978) with Jan Garbarek
Shift in the Wind (ECM; 1980) with Art Lande , Eliot Zigmund
Voice from the Past - Paradigm (ECM, 1981) with Tomasz Stanko , Jan Garbarek, Jack DeJohnette
Guamba (ECM, 1987) with Palle Mikkelborg , Jan Garbarek, Peter Erskine
http://www.trovar.com/ECM/ECM.php? artist=Peacock Gary Peacock on ECM Records
IMDb name|1034190
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