He briefly worked for Discovery Records in 1950 and 1951, then founded the label Pacific Jazz in Los Angeles with drummer Roy Harte in 1952.
Bock would also be responsible for launching the careers of prominent jazz musicians, and can be credited with the discovery of Joe Pass while he was coming clean from heroin addiction in the Synanon drug rehabilitation program in the early 1960’s.
[3] In 1958, Bock worked on a session with Ravi Shankar, then started a subsidiary label, World Pacific, which released music other than jazz.
He signed and produced three albums with Jean-Luc Ponty including King Kong (1970) in collaboration with Frank Zappa.
He worked closely with L. Subramaniam and produced some of his historic global fusion albums starting with Fantasy Without Limits (1979).