Annette Peacock
| Annette Peacock | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1941 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Genres | Avant-garde jazz, electronic |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, musician, composer |
| Instruments | Piano, vocals |
| Years active | 1960s–present |
| Labels | ECM, Ironic |
| Website | www |
Annette Peacock is an American singer, musician, and composer.
Peacock was born Brooklyn, New York, and began writing music when she was five-years-old. She was self taught, aside from a brief period of study at Juilliard. Her mother was a violist in the San Diego and Philadelphia Orchestras who studied at the Curtis Institute of Music.
When she was nineteen, she married jazz bassist Gary Peacock. During the 1960s, she toured with Albert Ayler, studied Zen macrobiotics with Michio Kushi, and was a close associate of Timothy Leary at the psychedelic center in Millbrook. She also began writing music for avant-garde pianist Paul Bley. She and Bley experimented with a synthesizer given to her by its inventor, Robert Moog, and she recorded her voice electronically on the keyboard. In 1971, she and Bley issued the album The Bley/Peacock Synthesizer Show.
Peacock played electric bass, electric piano, and electric vibraphone, notably in concerts in New York City at Town Hall and a live performance of the Bley-Peacock Synthesizer Show in 1969 at Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, which she promoted with a guest appearance on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson.
She recorded and produced her first album, Revenge: The Bigger the Love, the Greater the Hate (Polydor) in 1968, released in 1971, and re-released it in 2014 as I Belong to a World That's Destroying Itself. Her second solo album, I'm the One (RCA Victor) was eleased in 1972. With Paul Bley and Han Bennink she recorded two live albums: Improvise (America), and Dual Unity (Freedom). She mixed, edited, and produced both albums.
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