Jazz double bassist Gary Peacock was born on May 12, 1935 in Burley, Idaho.
After completing his military service in Germany in the early 1960s, he returned
to the US and began a career as a jobbing bass player on the West Coast playing
with artists such as Art Pepper, Bud Shank, Barney Kessel and Paul Bley. Peacock
built up a reputation as a solid bass anchorman and when he moved east to New
York, he soon fell into the East Coast music scene. He began picking up gigs
with Miles Davis and other notable jazz outfits. Peacock abandoned music as a
career in the late '60s and spent s...