Hearing Mike Nock

• 1Prologue02:19
• 2Sunrise04:34
• 3Conundrum01:42
• 4Vale John06:19
• 5Re-Affirmation01:03
• 6And In The Night Comes Rain07:16
• 7Jacanori01:24
• 8Accessing the Flow01:30
• 9Spirit Song06:55
• 10Square Circles01:02
• 11Waltz For My Lonely Years04:04
• 12Journey Through An Imaginary Landscape06:36
• 13Windows Of Arquez05:49
• Total Runtime50:33

Info for Hearing

Mike Nock is an icon of the Australian and international jazz scenes. In a career spanning more than 65 years, including 25 years in the US, he has worked with the world’s top jazz artists and garnered a swag of awards, including being inducted into the Australian Jazz Hall of Fame. His discography of more than 35 albums, recorded with his Trio, Quartet, Big Small Band and many other collaborators, includes ARIA, AIR and Jazz Bell awards, but this is his first solo album since the chart-topping ‘Touch’, released 30 years ago almost to the day, in 1993. Its 13 tracks reveal the many colours and moods that can be conjured from keys of a piano, and prove again Mike Nock’s incomparable genius as both composer and performer.

"One of jazzdom's most expansive minds." - Chuck Berg in Jazztimes (US)

"Mike Nock is a marvellous pianist." - San Francisco Examiner

"His playing was sublime. A supreme sense of rhythmic invention" - The Press, Christchurch (NZ)

"One of the world's key jazz pianists for the past 45 years." - John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald

Mike Nock, piano

Mike Nock
Mike Nock’s career has spanned a broad range of contemporary musical styles and he is widely recognized as an important voice in Australian modern music.

Based in Sydney since 1986, he previously spent 25 years in the USA, working with many of the world’s top jazz artists.

His compositions include orchestral music, woodwind / percussion ensembles, electronic / choral works etc., and have been recorded and performed by a range of jazz & non-jazz performers.

Attracting many awards and honours over his lengthy career in 2014 he was awarded the Don Banks Music Award, the most valuable individual music award in Australia.

In 2009 he was inducted into the Bell Awards Australian Jazz Hall of Fame and in 2003 presented with the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM).

In 2010 a biography of Mike’s life and career was published: Serious Fun: The Life and Music of Mike Nock. (Norman Meehan, Victoria University Press) As music director of Naxos Jazz from 1996 to 2002 he oversaw the production of more than 60 internationally released CDs.

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