Pianist Mike Nock was born in New Zealand but moved to Australia in 1958, and found work at Melbourne's The Embers restaurant where he began playing with Chris Karan.
Karan was born in Australia and had been playing drums locally for some years before joining The Embers' house band when it opened in 1959.
After meeting Mike Nock and Chris Karan, they formed The Three Out and made a name for themselves at El Rocco, a jazz club in Sydney.
[10] They were picked by Lee Gordon to perform at his 1st Annual Australian International Jazz Festival, which toured nationally,[8] and then recorded a second album Sittin' In in May 1961.
[10][11] After Mike Nock received a scholarship at Boston's Berklee School of Music the band left Australia.