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 […]

‘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

‘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