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The Month In Jazz – September 2020

12:55 PM EDT on September 21, 2020

Courtesy of Blue Note Records

We lost two major jazz voices this month. Bassist Gary Peacock died September 4th at 85. He was one of those players whose experience spans a vast range; he was a member of Miles Davis's quintet in 1964, subbing for Ron Carter; that same year, recorded Spiritual Unity with Albert Ayler. He played in a lot of trios, with pianists whose styles were vastly different from each other -- Bill Evans, Paul Bley, Masabumi Kikuchi, Marc Copland, Marilyn Crispell -- and in the late '70s became a member of Keith Jarrett's Standards Trio with drummer Jack DeJohnette. That group lasted from 1983, when they recorded Standards Vol. 1, to 2014, when they disbanded following a farewell concert at NJPAC in Newark, NJ.