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Donald's Encyclopedia of Popular MusicA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZPEACOCK, Gary(b 12 May '35, Barley ID) Bassist, composer, teacher. Studied piano in school, played piano in USA Army band late '50s; began playing bass in Germany after military service; to West Coast USA '58, played with Paul Horn, Shorty Rogers; to NYC '62, worked with Paul Bley, Bill Evans, Jimmy Giuffre, Roland Kirk, Steve Lacy, Roswell Rudd, George Russell; toured Europe with Albert Ayler, Don Cherry; briefly played with Miles Davis. He studied at the U of Washington mid- '70s, taught in Seattle mid-'80s. He rejoined Bley and began recording for ECM as a sideman and with his own albums: with beautiful tone and complete technique he is an important infl. in contemporary music. Many LPs as sideman incl. Spritual Unity '64 on ESP with Ayler, Virtuosi '67 and Japan Suite '76 (both co-led with Bley and Altschul) and Turning Point (with Bley, Paul Motian and John Gilmore) all on IAI, In The Evenings Out There on ECM, solos and duos with Bley, Tony Oxley and John Surman; and other albums with Keith Jarrett and Bley on ECM, plus his own as leader: Tales Of Another '77 (with Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette), December Poems '79, Shift In The Wind '80, Voices From The Past-Paradigm '82; Guamba '87 with Palle Mikkelborg, Jan Garbarek, Peter Erskine on drums and drum computer. Also Oracle with Ralph Towner on ECM, duo with Bill Frisell on Just So Happens on Postcards. |