Patrick Naylor

'Tasty acoustic guitar' - Jazz Journal 'Virtuoso guitar' - Time Out “one of the UK’s best guitarists’ – Chrissie Murray “a highly articulate, mellow musician” – Tony Hall in Jazzwise "Thoughtful, inventive and authoritative" - Crescendo "One if the UK's best British guitarists" - Chrissie Murray “There is a lot to enjoy in the mellow Days of Blue, especially the sensitive guitar playing of Patrick Naylor. Blue Morning feels like a jam session and shows off the quality of the musicians involved. The Latin feel of Restless is also a treat.” Telegraph Best Jazz Albums of 2015 – Review by Martin Chilton “This excellent album, mostly written by Naylor but with some of the other musicians too, stays with the listener long after it’s finished.” All About Jazz 4 star review of Days of Blue by Roger Farbey “An easy going album that won’t easily tire.” All About Jazz 4 Star review by Fiona Ord-Shrimpton “Guitarist, composer and bandleader Patrick Naylor has followed the 2 exceptional albums his band made in 1999 (‘Patrick Naylor Quartet’) and 2003 (‘Afternoon Moon’) with the long-awaited ‘Days of Blue’.” Ben Walker Days of Blue Review “As an experienced session musician, band leader, educator, and also writer for film, television and BBC Radio, Naylor is adept at distilling these influences into an accessible sequence of ten numbers which gleam with a variety of hues and atmospheres

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'Tasty acoustic guitar' - Jazz Journal 'Virtuoso guitar' - Time Out “one of the UK’s best guitarists’ – Chrissie Murray “a highly articulate, mellow musician” – Tony Hall in Jazzwise "Thoughtful, inventive and authoritative" - Crescendo "One if the UK's best British guitarists" - Chrissie Murray “There is a lot to enjoy in the mellow Days of Blue, especially the sensitive guitar playing of Patrick Naylor. Blue Morning feels like a jam session and shows off the quality of the musicians involved. The Latin feel of Restless is also a treat.” Telegraph Best Jazz Albums of 2015 – Review by Martin Chilton “This excellent album, mostly written by Naylor but with some of the other musicians too, stays with the listener long after it’s finished.” All About Jazz 4 star review of Days of Blue by Roger Farbey “An easy going album that won’t easily tire.” All About Jazz 4 Star review by Fiona Ord-Shrimpton “Guitarist, composer and bandleader Patrick Naylor has followed the 2 exceptional albums his band made in 1999 (‘Patrick Naylor Quartet’) and 2003 (‘Afternoon Moon’) with the long-awaited ‘Days of Blue’.” Ben Walker Days of Blue Review “As an experienced session musician, band leader, educator, and also writer for film, television and BBC Radio, Naylor is adept at distilling these influences into an accessible sequence of ten numbers which gleam with a variety of hues and atmospheres. And whilst he is clearly an accomplished soloist and leader, this is far from an out-and-out ‘guitarist’s album’, but rather a varied, balanced and articulate jazz experience.” Adrian Pallant Days of Blue Review Patrick Naylor’s Soundial - Review in Jazzwise Magazine 2003 Readers might recall that one of last year's most outstanding albums for me was composer/arranger David Beebee's Gaya, which featured his 9-piece band. (They gave one musically exciting, if sparsely attended, concert at Croydon's Fairfield Hall.) Naylor is Beebee's guitarist, heard here to excellent effect on electric and acoustic. This is his second set as a leader and is very much on the cusp of jazz and world music, containing elements of Turkish, Balkan, Brazilian and reggae rhythms among others. He's (Naylor) a highly articulate, mellow musician, whose solos all have great warmth and swing in a quiet, understated way. East, by the way, is really Ian Price, who has been a mainstay of all BeeBoss albums. Apparently, there are three Ian Price's, so he's taken his partner's surname to avoid further confusion. His laid-back tenor and soprano (also flute) work beautifully with Naylor's various guitars and Beebee himself makes his own important contribution on bass, Fell's percussive effects are an additional asset on his two tracks. Very soothing background music, which will kill conversation! - Tony Hall CD choice in London Evening Standard magazine 2000 “ Now and again it's worth looking beyond the major labels to the teeming underworld of Britian's self-produced albums. It's busy in indieland because of the caution of the recording industry, where demand must be brisk or doors start to slam on young and old alike. Guitarist Patrick Naylor is a comparative newcomer striving for recognition, but deserves wider attention. Naylor's guitars - an Ibanez semi-acoustic and a Lowden steel-strung acoustic - could say much the same thing. Their owner is a sensitive, unflashy player, rather like the American guitarist Ralph Towner, a favourite of his. Both in his writing and playing, Naylor looks for a shapely melody line, even in the heat of improvisation. The others, Saxophonist Ian East (Price), bassist David Beebee and drummer Sean Randle, share his aims and contribute unhurried solos and elegant interplay. Last year Beebee and East were co-leaders of an impressive debut album, Momentito. Then Beebee played piano, here he's on bass. It's easy to see him, Price and Naylor as charter members of a new British jazz movement - if they can be heard.” Jack Massarik.

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