Electrons don’t change trio’s essential character

Mike Nock Trio, Foundry 616, July 8. Reviewed by John Shand in the Sydney Morning Herald

★★★★½

“Where usually the piano would have stood naked and alone, now it was encroached upon by labyrinths of leads, plugs, pedals, knobs, faders and a synthesizer – like some sci-fi movie where a human metamorphoses into a robot. But then in an earlier life in the ’60s Mike Nock was among jazz’s first pianists to use electronics, and on rare occasions since he has revealed a singular command of the technology, possibilities and aesthetics, with no loss of the characteristics that define him.”

” This is now the most complete trio Nock has had since returning to Australia 32 years ago.”

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