The Eddie Myer 5tet: Finders Keepers
Author: Nick Hasted
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Musicians: |
Eddie Myer (b) |
Label: |
eddiemyer5tet.bandcamp.com |
Magazine Review Date: |
March/2017 |
RecordDate: |
2016 |
The hometown launch gig for this Brighton quintet's 2015 debut, Why Worry, doubled as an exhilarating celebration of their late saxophonist Ian Price, who had recently died of cancer. Myer's bass duties with the Mercury-nominated rock band Turin Brakes and omnipresence on the Brighton scene doubtless also distracted from a quick follow-up. Finders Keepers anyway suggests an optimistic and unhurried personality, in love with the most benign mainstream currents of jazz's late 1960s and early 1970s. New saxophonist Stone-Lonergan sounds smooth, bright and full-bodied, though capable of more pensive introspection against ‘Lee Rosser’'s proggy Fender Rhodes groove. Price's posthumous contribution ‘Amsterdam’ offers breezy summer optimism. Similarly, ‘The Great Level War’ is a sultry ballad which accumulates beauty like a Sunday walk in the park. You can picture Jack Lemmon abandoning the rat race in the era the band evoke, as the music falls into a climactic warm embrace. This is mellow, comfort jazz for a sunny afternoon.

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