{{About|the jazz album|the media organization|NowThis}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Now This | type = Album | artist = Gary Peacock Trio | cover = Now This.jpg |border=yes | alt = | released = May 26, 2015 | recorded = July 2014 | venue = | studio = Rainbow Studio, Oslo | genre = Avant-garde jazz | length = 57:48 | label = ECM<br><small>2428</small> | producer = Manfred Eicher | chronology = Gary Peacock | prev_title = A Closer View | prev_year = 1998 | next_title = Tangents | next_year = 2017 }}
'''''Now This''''' is an album by American jazz bassist Gary Peacock recorded in 2014 and released on the ECM label.<ref name="ECM discography">[https://ecmreviews.com/2015/05/25/gary-peacock-trio-now-this/ ECM discography] accessed September 19, 2016</ref> It features a trio with pianist Marc Copland and drummer Joey Baron.
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> | rev2 = ''The Guardian'' | rev2Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="Guardian"/> | rev3 = ''All About Jazz'' | rev3Score = {{rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="AAJ"/> | rev4 = ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' | rev4Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name=SMH/>}} AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars and the review by Thom Jurek stated "''Now This'' is not only an excellent portrait of the bassist in winter -- his abilities undiminished -- but also an exercise in the possibilities of the piano trio in the 21st century".<ref name="Allmusic">{{allMusic|last=Jurek|first=Thom|class=album|id=mw0002840622|title= Gary Peacock – ''Now This'' > Review |accessdate=September 19, 2016}}</ref> ''The Guardian''{{'}}s John Fordham said "They don’t play like a regular jazz-piano trio, often preferring tentative exchanges of clipped motifs and enigmatic queries to busy collective stretches or straight swing, and with considerable space for meditative individual statements. ...For those who know and love the participants, ''And Now This'' is captivating. Newcomers might need to give it a little quality time first".<ref name="Guardian">Fordham, J., [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/21/gary-peacock-trio-and-now-this-review Gary Peacock Trio: And Now This review – bassist’s captivating 80th birthday set], ''The Guardian'', May 22, 2015</ref> On All About Jazz Karl Ackermann said, "There is not a wasted note to be found on ''Now This'' where the compositions—some re-worked, others, new—strongly suggest a portentous air. Peacock, Copland and Baron expertly develop the pieces in that light so that, despite the overriding thoughtfulness, it is never certain in which direction the journey is moving. ''Now This'' is an thought-provoking collection rendered by brilliant performers"<ref name="AAJ">{{cite web |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/now-this-gary-peacock-ecm-records-review-by-karl-ackermann.php |title=Gary Peacock: Now This |work=Musical reviews |first=Karl |last=Ackermanm |publisher=All About Jazz |date=May 29, 2015 }}</ref>
In ''JazzTimes'', Thomas Conrad wrote "''Now This'' contains seven Peacock tunes, old ones like “Moor” and “Requiem” and pretty new ones like “Christa.” All are like passing revelations from a Peacock solo: spare, self-contained figures of mysterious expectancy. In his haunting high basslines, melodies linger, dissolve and reappear. As for Copland, he is the right pianist for an album about atmosphere and mood. But his quietude is deceptive. His scattered fragments and his counterintuitive chords create continuous subtle diversions. Baron is also subtle and provocative, and essential as a colorist".<ref>Conrad, T. [https://jazztimes.com/articles/165396-now-this-gary-peacock-trio JazzTimes Review], July/August 2015</ref> The Sydney Morning Herald's John Shand noted "Peacock's playing has lost none of its vigour or sinuousness, and his bass has been magnificently recorded. Copland's distinctive approach mingles effervescence and enigma, and Baron plays with something of the same joyous naivety with which Henri Rousseau painted".<ref name=SMH>Shand, J. [https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/spectrum-reviews-gary-peacock-trio-classical-legends-and-lots-of-sex-and-drugs-20151231-glxcoo.html The Sydney Morning Herald Review], January 9, 2016</ref>
==Track listing== All compositions by Gary Peacock except where noted. # "Gaia" - 6:41 # "Shadows" - 5:02 # "This" - 5:44 # "And Now" - 4:34 # "Esprit de Muse" (Joey Baron) - 6:16 # "Moor" - 5:17 # "Noh Blues" (Marc Copland) - 5:48 # "Christa" - 4:44 # "Vignette" - 4:56 # "Gloria's Step" (Scott LaFaro) - 3:59 # "Requiem" - 4:47 *Recorded at Rainbow Studio in Oslo, Norway in July 2014
==Personnel== * Gary Peacock — double bass * Marc Copland — piano *Joey Baron — drums
==External links== * [https://vimeo.com/417627867 short film with Marc Copland and Gary Peacock on ''Now This'', including documentary photography from the recording]
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