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|  | EARSHOT JAZZ Live Review July 2010 PART 1
| Dave Peck Trio
Monday, June 14, Jazz Alley
by Peter Walton
Dave Peck’s warm, melancholic music
is one of the great pleasures of Seattle
jazz. Concluding a short tour in
support of his trio’s latest release, Modern
Romance, the Dave Peck Trio came
home to Jazz Alley, where the burly pianist
has played since its opening some
31 years ago.
An Oregon native, Peck moved to
Seattle in 1978 and earned a teaching
position at Cornish College. Peck developed
key associations with vocalist
Ernestine Anderson and saxophonist
Bud Shank, and also represented the
Seattle jazz community as the house
pianist at Jazz Alley and the defunct
Parnell’s, supporting visiting stars such
as Sonny Stitt and Chet Baker. Waning
gig opportunities forced Peck to
explore other interests, and he returned
to school to study physics, while also
writing science fiction. After being
diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
in 1995, Peck refocused his life
on music and, with the help of his wife
Jane, formed his own label Let’s Play
Stella in 1998.
Now in his mid-50s, Peck performs
only intermittently. His dominant interest
remains the piano trio, and he
has done much to explore the possibilities
of the format. Three years ago
on the same Jazz Alley stage, the Dave
Peck Trio with Joe La Barbera (drums)
and Jeff Johnson (bass) cut the performances
that would compose the lovely
Modern Romance. This performance,
then, both celebrated its release and
marked the band’s growth from it. | | http://earshot.org/Publication/pub/10july.pdf |
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