Hearing (CD)

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.

TRACK LIST

1. Prologue
2. Sunrise
3. Conundrum
4. Vale John
5. Re-Affirmation
6. And in the Night Comes Rain (Jonathan Zwartz)
7. Jacanori
8. Accessing the Flow
9. Spirit Song (Bernie McGann)
10. Square Circles
11. Waltz for My Lonely Years
12. Journey Through an Imaginary Landscape
13. Windows of Arquez (Bryce Rohde)

All compositions by Mike Nock, except where indicated.
‘Vale John’ written for John Pochee.