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Gary Peacock Trio at the Jazz Standard

by Mike Jurkovic
November 14, 2017

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Gary Peacock Trio at Jazz Standard

by Tyran Grillo
November 9, 2017

Gary Peacock Trio Jazz Standard New York, NY November 7, 2017 Anyone old enough to remember when special effects in films were handmade has probably noticed the lack of apparent weight in modern CGI. Compare, for example, the cityscapes of Blade Runner 2049 to those of its 1982 predecessor, wherein every physical model feels integrated into its surrounding environment. Gary Peacock is among an increasingly rare crop of artists bringing those nostalgic feelings ...

Album Review

Gary Peacock: Tangents

Read "Tangents" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
November 9, 2017

Throughout his storied career, bassist/composer Gary Peacock has gone a long way to make the bass an emotive and compelling solo instrument. Yet, when one looks back on--or better yet--listens back to the myriad of great recordings he has given us both as a sideman and leader, it is his emphatic, soul-intuitive, work within the piano trio format that makes us grateful. Think Bill Evans's '64 Verve debut Trio64. While ruminating in '64, listen to Peacock's exemplary work on Paul ...

Album Review

Gary Peacock Trio: Tangents

Read "Tangents" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
August 28, 2017

Considering his nearly sixty-five years of recording, Gary Peacock has been relatively selective in his choice of leader projects. His association with luminaries Albert Ayler, Paul Bley, Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett have put him in the company of jazz history makers. When Jarrett's Standards Trio, with Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette, disbanded in 2014 after over twenty recordings, Peacock launched his own piano trio with pianist Marc Copland and drummer Joey Baron. Tangents is the follow-up to Now This ...

Album Review

Gary Peacock Trio: Now This

Read "Now This" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo

by Maurizio Zerbo
September 1, 2015

La pubblicazione di questo CD avviene in concomitanza con l'ottantesimo compleanno del contrabbassista statunitense. Non è quindi il caso di fare le pulci ad un CD che celebra la carriera artistica di un grande protagonista del jazz moderno. Le undici tracce rappresentano il lato lunare ed intimistico del leader, a scapito dei gloriosi trascorsi avanguardistici. In ossequioso rispetto dell'estetica ECM, prevale un clima pacato e disteso con armonizzazioni raffinate. Il suo trio persegue linee melodiche suggestive mediante l'enunciazione delicata, ricercata ...

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Gary Peacock Trio: Now This

Read "Now This" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
June 9, 2015

On some level it must be daunting to play in a piano trio with bassist Gary Peacock. He's a longtime member of the Keith Jarrett Standards Trio (with drummer Jack DeJohnette), arguably the definitive contemporary piano trio. Before that, he worked with the great Bill Evans, and with iconoclast Paul Bley (often in the company of drummer Paul Motian). But this group has its own history: he and pianist Marc Copland have an extensive discography together since 2008, ...

Album Review

Gary Peacock Trio: Now This

Read "Now This" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
May 29, 2015

Some of bassist Gary Peacock's earliest musical associations speak to a career that has been nurtured by unusually well-rounded experiences. Subbing for Ron Carter in gigs with Miles Davis, playing with the Bill Evans Trio and pianist Paul Bley and a stay with saxophonist Albert Ayler provided Peacock with foundations that ran the gamut from main-stream balladry, to conceptually modern jazz to the most unrestricted free jazz. All of which led up to the three-decades long relationship with Keith Jarrett ...