[NewMusic] Peacock: A baboon's ass?

[Damon Smith]

The way I see it he was playing with Bley and Ayler around the same  
time. After you have played with Ayler there is not much else to do  
in that direction so he kept going with the other stuff.
He was also pretty innovative in terms of post-LaFaro piano trio  
interaction from "Trio 64" with Bill Evans on.
The last trio he made with Bley and Motion "Not One, Not Two"  was  
really good.
When I have heard him, he still sounded like Gary Peacock.

On Aug 1, 2007, at 3:59 PM, George Cremaschi wrote:

> Gary Peacock? I'd rather discuss how he hasn't even
> remotely followed up on the incredible promise of his
> fantastic playing with Albert Ayler in 1964 - playing
> that was as radical a step forward on his instrument
> as was Ayler's and Sonny Murray's in their still-frightening
> trio. Music that has blown away almost everyone who has
> tried to emulate it. Music that continues to make most
> post-jazz improv I hear sound puerile in comparison. Peacock's
> career has been a forty-year slide into complete irrelevancy.
>
> -George
>
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Damon Smith

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