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Nick Peck Nick is a San Francisco Bay Area native. He began piano lessons at 8. Peck spent his teenage years exploring pop music, and began writing his own compositions at 18. He began playing in progressive rock bands while in college. Starting in the late 80's, Peck fronted the Marin County-based prog rock group Episode for about a decade, recording two albums and gigging regionally. Peck continued his formal training in electronic music, receiving a BA from San Francisco State University and MFA from Mills College in Oakland, California. During that period, he focused on composing serious 20th century electronic music, particularly using modular analog synthesizers, analog tape, and field recordings.   In the mid-nineties, Peck recorded a big, sprawling epic progressive rock album called Under the Big Tree. The creation of this album marked a shift of focus from structured music to more improvisational techniques. He then co-founded the jamband Ten Ton Chicken. Though Peck had been playing Hammond organ since he was a teenager, it was during this period that the organ really became his primary instrument. After five years, 150 gigs, and two albums with the band, Peck left to focus on jazz. Six months later, he formed the Mill Valley Jazz Collective, a soul jazz group.   In 2004, Peck formed Sycamore Park, a funk/jazz band which recorded and gigged around the Bay Area for a couple of years. His most recent project is an album of acid and soul jazz compositions entitled "Fire Trucks I Have Known", which was released in September 2007. As of this writing, Peck is rehearsing up a new band, the Nick Peck Organ Trio, to gig in support of the album.

contact:
homepage:	nicolaspeck.com
	www.myspace.com/nickpeck
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