Mike Nock's life in music spans some 60 years from his early years in New Zealand to playing jazz on the world stage. As a pianist, composer, educator and band leader, Mike has made a huge impact on the Australian jazz scene over the past three decades and this outstanding contribution has just been acknowledged with the presentation to Mike of the Australia Council's prestigious Don Banks Award.
In the first of two programs looking at Mike's life in music, Into the Music charts Mike's impressive career as a jazzman in the US - Mike Nock, The American Years.
This imposing international experience includes some twenty-five years working in the USA alongside many of the world's top jazz musicians such as: Coleman Hawkins, Yusef Lateef, John Schofield, John Abercrombie and Michael Brecker. His early years in the US saw him working in Lennie's jazz club in Boston as the house pianist playing with all the touring jazz soloists and gaining extraordinary experience as a jazz musician with colleagues and friends like Tony Williams and Sam Rivers.
Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/intothemusic/mike-nock---the-american-years/5234336
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