Gary George Peacock was an American jazz double bassist.
17 Facts About Gary Peacock
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Gary 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.
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Gary Peacock soon established himself as a bass player, participating in sessions with Barney Kessel and Art Pepper, and, in 1962, recording with Don Ellis, Clare Fischer, and Prince Lasha.
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Gary Peacock married fellow musician Annette Peacock and began a musical association with pianist Paul Bley, with whom he would go on to record nine albums.
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In 1962, Gary Peacock moved to New York, where he played with Bley and musicians such as Jimmy Giuffre, Roland Kirk, George Russell, and Archie Shepp.
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Gary Peacock joined Bill Evans' trio, which included drummer Paul Motian, who would become a long-time associate, recording the album Trio 64 with the group in December 1963.
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Gary Peacock heard everything that was happening all the time.
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In 1964, Gary Peacock joined Albert Ayler's trio, which featured drummer Sunny Murray, and went on to tour and record with him, appearing on the groundbreaking Spiritual Unity album among others.
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Gary Peacock was about music, really, really about music and about continual development with the instrument, with technique, with all of that.
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Gary Peacock was really, he was coming from a real place.
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Gary Peacock continued to record with Bley, Williams, and others until the late 1960s, when he began experiencing health problems.
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Gary Peacock resumed his musical relationship with Bley, touring Japan and recording Japan Suite.
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From 1979 to 1983, Gary Peacock taught at the Cornish School of the Arts.
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Gary Peacock performed and recorded with a trio known as Tethered Moon, with Masabumi Kikuchi and Motian, as well as recording with Bley, Garbarek, Ralph Towner, and Marc Copland.
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Gary Peacock died on September 4,2020, at his home in Upstate New York.
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Gary Peacock was 85; the cause of death was undisclosed.
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Gary Peacock discussed the relationship between music and his daily practice of zazen :.