Recent recordings
GalleryThis World
Recordings
In December 2018 pianist Mike Nock, drummer Hamish Stuart, saxophonist Julien Wilson and bassist Jonathan Zwartz played an intimate gig in the basement of a cosy inner-Sydney restaurant. Despite having enjoyed established relationships with each other in a variety of formats, this marked their first performance as a quartet.
GallerySuite SIMA | Mike Nock Octet
Recordings
Suite SIMA
Released September 2014 (Fourth Way Music)
Mike Nock Octet
4.5 stars
It is doubtful whether the Sydney Improvised Music Association could receive a dedication of higher quality — in composition or performance — than this suite of six originals by maestro Mike Nock, add seven more of Sydney’s top jazz performers and the suite becomes sweet […]
GalleryKindred | Mike Nock and Laurenz Pike
Recordings
These 2011 sessions were conceived as music-making without a safety net, and it's clear that Nock and Pike—separated by nearly 40 years—didn't need one. John Kelman, AllAboutJazz 14 September 2012
GalleryHere and Know | Mike Nock Trio Plus
Recordings
‘a stellar quintet of four younger players led by a grand old master whose compositions and arrangements here are like a 21st-century re-invention of the legendary works of Gil Evans for Miles Davis’s famous quintet of 1963 to 1965.’ John McBeath, The Australian
GalleryAn Accumulation of Subleties | Mike Nock Trio
Mike Nock Trio, Recordings
Best Australian Contemporary Jazz Album at the 2011 Bell Awards
'...consummate, artful playing across a miscellany of moods; then the impressive way the trio integrates organically into a seamless yet discursive ensemble." John McBeath, The Weekend AUSTRALIAN, June 19-20, 2010.
GalleryMeeting of the waters | Mike Nock Project
Mike Nock Project, Recordings
'Meeting of the Waters is another high watermark for Nock; received too late to make a 2007 best of list, it could be an early contender for 2008.' John Kelman 27 December 2007
GalleryDuologue | Mike Nock & Dave Liebman
Recordings
‘that most serendipitous of happenstances, when two friends reacquaint themselves and discover that time and geography haven’t placed any real distance between them at all.’ John Kelman, AllAboutJazz
GalleryLive | Mike Nock’s Big Small Band
Recordings
'and while the band played on the audience listened with rapt and wonder-full enjoyment.' Michael Foster, Canberra Times, 22 Oct 2002
GalleryChanging Seasons | Mike Nock Trio
Recordings
'ensemble playing of real distinction... but ultimately it is Nock's superlative musicianship that animates the material, and inspires his collaborators. I love this album. You will too.' - Chris Dench, Music Forum, June 2003
