Mike Nock records two programmes
The New Zealand-born pianist Mike Nock is now an established figure in the North American jazz scene. Born in Nelson in 1940, as a young man he was a freelance musician around New Zealand, well-known with his “Three Out” trio. In 1961, he went to America on a scholarship to the Berkeley School of Music and
has made his home there i ever since. Mike Nock has played I piano with most of the jazz “greats” during the last 151 years or so and was voted No. 2 Pop Pianist in the United States Jazz and Pop Critics Poll of 1971. The following year he was awarded a National Endowment Jazz
Fellowship grant for composition, and it is in this area that he has tended to ] concentrate in recent years. In 1974, he produced two (shows on Electronic Music (for Canadian Television. Home in New Zealand recently, he recorded two programmes for Radio New ! Zealand. Since his return to America he has moved from his former base of San Francisco to New York, where he is currently enjoying great success in the distinctive East Coast professional music world. The first programme of “Jazz with the Mike Nock Trio” can be heard from the Concert Programme on Thursday night.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33917, 9 August 1975, Page 5
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