[2] He studied classical music at the Paris Conservatory from 1949 to 1951,[1] while playing and recording with leading jazz musicians such as Coleman Hawkins (1949), James Moody (1949–50), and Roy Eldridge (1950).
[2] Peck shuttled between Paris and New York until 1957, when he married dancer Vera Tietz and settled in France.
[2] Peck spent some time in England and Germany, working as a staff musician at Sender Freies Berlin and playing with Quincy Jones and the Clarke-Boland Big Band (1963–69).
While this led to him ending his playing career, he shifted his talents to putting together the best blend of session musicians that he could find.
'The Italian Job', 'Yentl', 'The 3 Muskateers', and many more great films, especially with French composers Michel Legrand and Philippe Sarde.