Rick Peckham is a jazz guitarist, clinician, composer and writer. His recent release entitled Left End features drummer Jim Black and bassist Tony Scherr, and has been winning critical acclaim worldwide, including a four-star review from Downbeat magazine. ESC Records has released Left End in the EU and Japan. Rick has toured and recorded as a member of Irish bassist-composer Ronan Guilfoye’s cross-cultural Lingua Franca band, and is featured on recordings by Human Feel, Hal Crook, Bob Gullotti, The George Garzone Quartet, and others. In addition to extensive work in the US, he has led or played on tours of Ireland, Canada, Spain and Germany.
Peckham has been a faculty member at Berklee College of Music since 1986, at that point, integral to the development of Berklee's ear training and musicianship curricula. He organized the college’s honorary doctoral tributes to Roy Haynes, Joe Zawinul, Jack DeJohnette and John Scofield, featuring then-Berklee students Kurt Rosenwinkel, Matthew Garrison, Antonio Hart, Abe Laboriel Jr., Melvin Butler and Seamus Blake. Peckham attended North Texas University and is currently Assistant Chair of the Guitar Department at Berklee. His Berklee Media works include the DVD Modal Voicing Techniques and the 12-week online course Berklee Guitar Chords 101 for www.berkleemusic.com, which recently received Best Online Course from the UCEA.
