Across a career that began in the early 1960s, Gary Peacock has been a crucial double-bass foil for Bill Evans, Paul Bley, Marilyn Crispell and Keith Jarrett and others. Empathy with advanced pianists has been a speciality, but he has also been an uninhibited free-jazz player, notably in volcanic collaboration with Albert Ayler. Peacock is partnered by thoughtful pianist Marc Copland on this celebratory 80th birthday set, with Joey Baron on drums. They don’t play like a regular jazz-piano trio, often preferring tentative exchanges of clipped motifs and enigmatic queries to busy collective stretches or straight swing, and with considerable space for meditative individual statements. Peacock originals such as the delicate, folk-dancey Gaia, the impulsive Moor and the pulsating Vignette, with its imploringly fragile melody, receive slow-burn treatments that exert an increasingly compelling grip. Scott LaFaro’s Gloria’s Step is warmly re-created within the Evans trio mould. For those who know and love the participants, And Now This is captivating. Newcomers might need to give it a little quality time first.
Best Albums of 2015 … So Far!
Posted by: osprey on 20 September 2015
This album was released already in April if I remember correctly. I bought it only recently though and have listened to it lot.
"Sound & Color is not an electronic record. But it is strange and mystical and unexpected—more Houses of the Holy than "Holy Cow". It’s got past lives and future people, traces of Curtis Mayfield, Erykah Badu, MC5, the Strokes. There’s a song called "Shoegaze" that could find a second home on the Rolling Stones’ Tattoo You. Bon Iver collaborator Rob Moose provides eerie string arrangements that slowly encroach on songs like ivy climbing up a fence while the band and co-producer Blake Mills tweak tones and rhythms to make guitars and drums and bass and keyboards sound genuinely exciting—fresh, even—in 2015. "
- Pitchfork
Are there any other 2015 releases you can nominate to the best of list for the year?
Only released yesterday, already shaping up as a classic:
Hi Kevin,
Where did you buy your's from? I might put an order in when I get back from Spain tonight.
I first thought this was 2014 but it has been released in the beginning of 2015.
For me this Sound Liaison PCM/DSD download is what good jazz is all about and the SQ is terrific.
It is also according to the website the only Sound Liaison album recorded direct to DSD as well as PCM . I have the PCM 24/96.
Gary Peacock; Now This, highly recommended, (HD Tracks)
Guardian review;
Just finished first round of listening but I think the new Carmen Gomes on Sound Liaison gets my vote. Stunning.
http://www.soundliaison.com/st...omes-inc-little-blue
Little Blue is a collection of songs that I feel strongly about. Songs of my youth that made an lingering impression and original compositions, some written a long time ago; some only recently.
They all deal with topics of everyday life that keeps my mind occupied: the choices we make, how we define ourselves and how we deal with life in general.
I was a reasonably happy but lonely kid. I felt myself an outsider, a bit different, maybe to a certain extend excluded. Making up for this, I locked myself in my room and listened to music, singing along with every song. I developed a taste for artists that were more ''deep''.... Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Neil Young. There was something in their voices that touched me, some emotion that I recognized.
I internalized all of Neil Young's lyrics; they made a huge impact on me and served as a heavy influence on the lyrics that I started writing myself. Billie's voice still tears me apart.
Growing up, I came across songs that stuck with me. Holding Back the years and Brass in Pocket for example. I strongly related to the lyrics. I could almost smell them. Songs about love in all it's splendour and compassion. Songs about addiction, inequality and loneliness. Songs about the eternal search for an answer. I’m a grown woman now, a mother, experienced, but still searching.
To sing a song I need to picture the story of the lyrics in my head; I have to feel them. If I can't feel them, I can't sing them. And how can I expect you to believe what I am singing if I don't feel it myself? So you can say that the songs on this album are very personal, very close.
Carmen Gomes
Gary Peacock; Now This, highly recommended, (HD Tracks)
Gary Peacock is 80 years old but still plays the bass with complete mastery. Very impressive.
Just finished first round of listening but I think the new Carmen Gomes on Sound Liaison gets my vote. Stunning.
http://www.soundliaison.com/st...omes-inc-little-blue
Little Blue is a collection of songs that I feel strongly about. Songs of my youth that made an lingering impression and original compositions, some written a long time ago; some only recently.
They all deal with topics of everyday life that keeps my mind occupied: the choices we make, how we define ourselves and how we deal with life in general.
I was a reasonably happy but lonely kid. I felt myself an outsider, a bit different, maybe to a certain extend excluded. Making up for this, I locked myself in my room and listened to music, singing along with every song. I developed a taste for artists that were more ''deep''.... Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Neil Young. There was something in their voices that touched me, some emotion that I recognized.
I internalized all of Neil Young's lyrics; they made a huge impact on me and served as a heavy influence on the lyrics that I started writing myself. Billie's voice still tears me apart.
Growing up, I came across songs that stuck with me. Holding Back the years and Brass in Pocket for example. I strongly related to the lyrics. I could almost smell them. Songs about love in all it's splendour and compassion. Songs about addiction, inequality and loneliness. Songs about the eternal search for an answer. I’m a grown woman now, a mother, experienced, but still searching.
To sing a song I need to picture the story of the lyrics in my head; I have to feel them. If I can't feel them, I can't sing them. And how can I expect you to believe what I am singing if I don't feel it myself? So you can say that the songs on this album are very personal, very close.
Carmen Gomes
Just finished first round of listening but I think the new Carmen Gomes on Sound Liaison gets my vote. Stunning.
http://www.soundliaison.com/st...omes-inc-little-blue
Little Blue is a collection of songs that I feel strongly about. Songs of my youth that made an lingering impression and original compositions, some written a long time ago; some only recently.
They all deal with topics of everyday life that keeps my mind occupied: the choices we make, how we define ourselves and how we deal with life in general.
I was a reasonably happy but lonely kid. I felt myself an outsider, a bit different, maybe to a certain extend excluded. Making up for this, I locked myself in my room and listened to music, singing along with every song. I developed a taste for artists that were more ''deep''.... Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Neil Young. There was something in their voices that touched me, some emotion that I recognized.
I internalized all of Neil Young's lyrics; they made a huge impact on me and served as a heavy influence on the lyrics that I started writing myself. Billie's voice still tears me apart.
Growing up, I came across songs that stuck with me. Holding Back the years and Brass in Pocket for example. I strongly related to the lyrics. I could almost smell them. Songs about love in all it's splendour and compassion. Songs about addiction, inequality and loneliness. Songs about the eternal search for an answer. I’m a grown woman now, a mother, experienced, but still searching.
To sing a song I need to picture the story of the lyrics in my head; I have to feel them. If I can't feel them, I can't sing them. And how can I expect you to believe what I am singing if I don't feel it myself? So you can say that the songs on this album are very personal, very close.
Carmen Gomes
This is my favourite album of the year, well worth the five year wait:
Some other great albums of the year include
Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
Lonelady - Hinterland
Ezra Furman & His Boyfriends - Perpetual Motion People
Samantha Crain - Under Branch & Thorn & Tree
Joan Shelley - Over And Even
Sexwitch - Sexwitch
This is my favourite album of the year, well worth the five year wait:
Some other great albums of the year include
Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
Lonelady - Hinterland
Ezra Furman & His Boyfriends - Perpetual Motion People
Samantha Crain - Under Branch & Thorn & Tree
Joan Shelley - Over And Even
Sexwitch - Sexwitch
Glad somebody else found Samantha Crain and Joan Shelley. I like both a lot. The first Joan Shelley album 'Electric Ursa' is good too.
I have grappled with Joanna Newsom before. Must try harder!
Bruce
This is my favourite album of the year, well worth the five year wait:
Some other great albums of the year include
Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
Lonelady - Hinterland
Ezra Furman & His Boyfriends - Perpetual Motion People
Samantha Crain - Under Branch & Thorn & Tree
Joan Shelley - Over And Even
Sexwitch - Sexwitch
Glad somebody else found Samantha Crain and Joan Shelley. I like both a lot. The first Joan Shelley album 'Electric Ursa' is good too.
I have grappled with Joanna Newsom before. Must try harder!
Bruce
Hi Bruce
I hadn't heard of Joan Shelley until I bought the November edition of Uncut Magazine for the Joanna Newsom interview. She was featured in the I'm New Here section and she also had her song Over and Even on the free CD. I was really impressed with that song so ordered the album and also her previous album Electric Ursa which as you say is also really good. As for Samantha Crain I kept hearing Big Rock on 6 Music so bought Under Branch & Thorn & Tree and Kid Face which is also excellent . I have also just ordered her other albums Songs in the Night and You - Understood .
As as for grappling with Joanna Newsom it is definitely worth trying harder as she will reward your efforts. 