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GARY PEACOCK

Gary Peacock, who performed alongside Albert Ayler, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Tony Williams, and many others, died on September 4 at the age of 85.

Peacock was born in Burley, Idaho on May 12, 1935, and grew up in Yakima, Washington. By high school he was playing trumpet, piano, and drums, and after graduation attended the Westlake College of Music in Los Angeles before being drafted into the Army. While

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