Rough Boundaries

Recorded in April 2016, Rough Boundaries was Naylor's debut Big Band album, featuring Birmingham Jazz Orchestra. The concept was to describe and capture the character and nuance of five contrasting cities, through the sounds of a jazz orchestra.  He deliberately selected places which are aguably less travelled and therefore untainted by commercialism, allowing him to describe his own adventure, rather than living up to someone else's.  

The suite consists of five pieces - Moscow, Bilbao, Stockholm, Reykjavik and Marrakech, and the album is available from Bandcamp here.

​In 2017, Naylor received the Dankworth Prize for Composition for his piece Bilbao from this suite.

​“One hears shades and echoes of Kenny Wheeler, Gil Evans and Maria Schnieder as well as the improvisatory flexibility of Graham Collier and Django Bates.”

                                                                                          — LondonJazzNews