Born in 1935, Peacock has recorded an incredible number of duo albums - e.g. with Ralph Towner, Paul Bley, and Bill Frizell, among others. And now with Marc Copland. When Peacock plays, there is no longer a question as to whether the bass should be more a solo or an accompanying instrument; Peacock clearly encompasses both these rolls. With Peacock the bass can instantly change perspectives and rolls, and is essentially soloist and accompanist at the same time.

Peacock illuminates a piece's lines with his exceptionally flexible, sharply contoured, and constantly new harmonic and melodic angles; he is a musician whose interpretations invariably lead to intriguing new dimensions. For that most intimate form of jazz, the duo, his deep intuitive understanding is always an immensely enriching element in the mix.

"Alone" reveals Marc Copland solo, it is a facet that is especially exciting - particularly now, after this pianist's extraordinary New York Trio recordings on Pirouet. The press responded enthusiastically; the international critics' verdict: "a true miracle", "the musical choice when stranded on that desert island", a jazz musician that is more and more thrust into the "the summit regions of the musical Olympus". Over and over it has been emphasised how sensitively Copland reacted to his trio partners (each of the trio CDs, by the way, were made up of different group members) - what a kaleidoscope of colours his playing can absorb and reflect. Despite (or is it because of) Copland's unique tonal language, the individual nuances of each playing partner are revealed. Born in Philadelphia in 1948, he began his professional career in the nineteen sixties as a saxophonist. Since the late eighties he has more and more made a name as a pianist with a totally unique aesthetic. His enigmatically suspended harmonies create textural nuances which have become an unmistakeable trademark of Copland's.