Nat Peck

Nat Peck ( born January 13, 1925 in New York City ) is an American jazz trombonist.

Nat Peck played at the beginning of his career in the swing bands of Glenn Miller ( 1943-45 ) and Don Redman (1947). Then he emigrated to France, where he lived from 1947 to 1951; He studied at the Paris Conservatory ( 1949-51 ), was in 1949 with Coleman Hawkins on a European tour and played among others with James Moody ( 1949-50 ), Roy Eldridge, Don Byas, Kenny Clarke (1950) and Bobby Jaspar / Roger Guerin (1954 ) and Zoot Sims / Henri Renaud and Martial Solal. In the 1950s, Peck appeared in New York and Paris and in television shows. In 1953 he participated in recordings with Dizzy Gillespie's band.

In the 1960s, Peck returned again to France, where he worked among others with Michel Legrand, André Hodeir and Duke Ellington. At times, he settled in England and Germany, where he worked as a studio musician at the Sender Freies Berlin; He also played in this time with Quincy Jones and 1963-1969 in the Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland Big Band. In 1954, he participated in a NDR Workshop under the direction of Hans Koller. In 1965 he moved to London, where he mainly worked as a studio musician for film and television. 1970/72 he played in the band of Benny Goodman, 1979 Peter Herbolzheimers orchestra. In the 1990s Peck moved largely back from the active music scene, but remained the music industry as an agent and promoter connected.

Swell

• " Nat Peck ". The New Grove | Grove Jazz online.
• Bielefeld Catalogue 1988 and 2001
• Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. 6th edition. Penguin, London, 2002.

• Jazz trombonist
• American musician
• Born in 1925
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