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Gary Peacock
May 12, 1935 - September 4, 2020

Another favorite of mine and Ron Thorne's has passed away. Jazztimes did a write-up earlier this year focused on his early years influencing the avant-garde boundaries of jazz.

https://jazztimes.com/features/columns/ ... ant-garde/

In the recommended listening list at the end is an album that has sat in my top 2-3 recordings for 20+ years, which I always use for testing out new audio equipment, because it is an amazing album fabulously played and recorded, and I know how everything should sound having listened to it countless times.



Thinking of my dad and how he'd want to commemorate, I can't think of a better YouTube clip to share than this one, as it features Gary Peacock and Ralph Towner playing Jim Pepper.

Thanks for that, Justin. You’re so right - that’s Ron Thorne all the way. He sent me and turned me on to so much amazing Jim Pepper. And I know he was a mutual Towner/Oregon fan. Forever grateful. I need to listen to Guamba!

rlfun wrote:Thanks for that, Justin. You’re so right - that’s Ron Thorne all the way. He sent me and turned me on to so much amazing Jim Pepper. And I know he was a mutual Towner/Oregon fan. Forever grateful. I need to listen to Guamba!

Indeed he was an Oregon fan. We had Oregon artwork up in our hallway throughout my childhood in addition to hearing it at home and on the car stereo. Guamba is highly recommended!

Sorry! Late finding this. I'm ordering Guamba! Cool about the Oregon artwork.

Guamba is ordered. Meanwhile, been listening on Spotify. Excellent.

Have you given Guamba a couple listens since receiving the CD?

Damn. I never see these replies until days or weeks later. Wth?. You know, I'd been listening on Spotify so much, I canceled the CD. I know, that's not a good way to go. At the radio station when Spotify came on the streaming scene in 2010 or 2011, jazz musicians were encouraging everyone to boycott Spotify because they were paying the least amount of royalties. There were very few streamers back then. Word started spreading and Spotify decided to step up and start paying its fair share. A joke, of course, because there is no "fair share" - it's all a rip-off. Musicians lose. Peacock, Garbarek, Erskine...long-time faves. I wasn't familiar with Mikkelborg but he's great.

Any more thoughts about JT?

You can actually subscribe to updates on any thread. When you add a post, there is a checkbox reading "Notify me when a reply is posted". It will send an email to you when a reply is added. That you have to do it individually for every thread is not exactly convenient, though. That is why it took me over 10 days to notice this post. That is probably also one of the reasons why Facebook and the like do so well: they inform the heck out of you with notifications for every minute thing you and your circle of friends do on the platform.

I totally agree regarding the lack of fair share in pretty much every streaming and/or record label arrangement. I feel that the model on Bandcamp.com is so much better than most, since artists keep the lion's share in all cases, and even more whenever they do their no-fee Bandcamp Fridays, which has been pretty much every week throughout the pandemic so far, and at least until May this year. Of course, artists have to be free to release their music there, and not encumbered by a deal with their label.

One of the other great contributions by Palle Mikkelborg was the 1989 Miles Davis album Aura (recorded in 1985), for which he provided all compositions and arrangements. It is a very interesting album. The backstory: https://salt-peanuts.eu/essay/days-with ... g-of-aura/

About JT, still thinking about it. If only we could get a few more folks regularly contributing, that would make all the difference.

rlfun wrote:Damn. I never see these replies until days or weeks later. Wth?. You know, I'd been listening on Spotify so much, I canceled the CD. I know, that's not a good way to go. At the radio station when Spotify came on the streaming scene in 2010 or 2011, jazz musicians were encouraging everyone to boycott Spotify because they were paying the least amount of royalties. There were very few streamers back then. Word started spreading and Spotify decided to step up and start paying its fair share. A joke, of course, because there is no "fair share" - it's all a rip-off. Musicians lose. Peacock, Garbarek, Erskine...long-time faves. I wasn't familiar with Mikkelborg but he's great.

Any more thoughts about JT?