Annette Peacock

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Annette Peacock
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Background information
Born (1941-02-09) 9 February 1941 (age 83)
Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
Genres Free jazz, avant-garde jazz, electronic, art rock
Occupation(s)Composer, musician, songwriter, producer, arranger
Instrument(s)Vocals, synthesizer, keyboards
Years active1960s–present
Labelsironic US, ECM, RCA, Sony, BMG
Website www.annettepeacock.com

Annette Peacock (born 8 January 1941) [1] [2] is an American composer, musician, songwriter, producer, and arranger. She is a pioneer in electronic music who combined her voice with one of the first Moog synthesizers in the late 1960s.

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Biography

Annette Peacock was writing music by the time she was four years old. She is self-taught except for her time as a student at The Juilliard School in the early 1970s. [3] She grew up in California. [4]

She moved to New York to marry jazz bassist Gary Peacock in 1960. [4] During the early 1960s, she was an associate and guest of Timothy Leary. [3] and Ram Das at Millbrook, and was among the first to study Zen Macrobiotics with Michio Kushi, a discipline she continues to uphold. Peacock toured Europe with avant-garde jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler [3] [4] while she was married to Gary Peacock, then pianist Paul Bley. [5] [6] Her compositions appeared on Bley's album Ballads and influenced the style of ECM Records. [4] She was a pioneer in synthesizing electronic vocals after having been given a prototype of the first designed Moog synthesizer by its inventor, Robert Moog. [3]

She performed with the Bley-Peacock Synthesizer Show at New York's Town Hall in November 1969 and the next month at Philharmonic Hall which she promoted with late-night TV ads and an appearance on The Johnny Carson Show. [7] Her official debut solo album, I'm the One (RCA Victor), was released in 1972. [8]

During the 1970s and '80s, she worked with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Allan Holdsworth, Evan Parker, Brian Eno, Bill Bruford, Mike Garson, Mick Ronson before moving back to the U.S. [4] The album An Acrobat's Heart (ECM, 2000) took two years to compose and arrange, and broke her twelve-year hiatus from recording. [9]

Critical reception

"Annette Peacock is a stone cold original – an innovator, an outlier, authentically sui generis," said John Doran of The Quietus . [10]

Discography

As leader

Singles

Compilations

As co-leader or sidewoman

Compositions appeared on

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References

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  2. ↑ "Browse In Jazz, Electronic Instruments | Grove Music Online | Grove Music". Grove Music Online.
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  6. ↑ Morton, Brian (8 January 2016). "Paul Bley: Pianist who played with Charlie Parker, Sony Rollins and Ornette Coleman" . The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-07. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
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