01/03/2000 JACK MASSARIK in the EVENING STANDARD

Now and again it’s worth looking beyond the major labels to the teeming underworld of Britian’s self-produced aldums .... Naylors guitars - an Ibanez semi-acoustic and a Lowden steel-strung acoustic- could say much the same thing - [His writing is full of phrases natural to play, based on chord progressions easy on the ear. After a couple of numbers the soloists know they are in capable hands]. Their owner is a sensitive, unflashy player, rather like the American guitarist Ralph Towner, a favourite of his. Both in his writing and playind, Naylor looks for a shapely melody line, even in the heat of improvisation. The others, saxophonist Ian Price, bassist David Beebee and drummer Sean Randal, share his aims and contribute unhurried solos and elegant interplay. Last year Beebee and Price 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.