Eric Myers Jazz

ERIC MYERS REVIEWS 1980-87

Eric Myers was the Sydney Morning Herald’s inaugural jazz critic, his first review appearing on February 2, 1980. This folder contains text of articles published in the newspaper up to Myers’s resignation in 1982. Photographs which may or may not have appeared in the newspaper have been added. From 1983 Myers was The Australian’s jazz critic until his resignation in 1987. His reviews for that newspaper also appear in this folder. Articles which appeared in other publications are also included, if they serve to document the performances of Australian jazz musicians. Headings which appeared in the newspapers were always written by sub-editors. The most excruciating of them have been modified, but mostly they are reproduced as they appeared in newspapers. Readers can click on the INDEX button for a list of reviews or articles in this folder.

COL LOUGHNAN: TOP OF THE TONE

by Eric Myers

Sydney Morning Herald, April 9, 1980

As saxophonist with a number of leading groups, particularly Roger Frampton's Jazz Co-Op and the Judy Bailey Quintet, Col Loughnan is probably better known to the jazz public as a sideman, rather than a bandleader. However, a new quartet under his own name, including Steve Murphy (guitar), Phil Scorgie (electric bass) and Willie Qua (drums) has now taken up the Monday residence at Jenny's…

JACK LESMANA QUINTET: COOL LICKS BY FAMILY GROUP

by Eric Myers

Sydney Morning Herald, April 11, 1980

The notable thing about this concert was the evidence, not widely known in Australia, that the jazz spirit has been alive in Indonesia for many years. It has been so since the mid-1940s, when the guitarist Jack Lesmana first heard Charlie Parker's version of Embraceable You. That the same spirit has surfaced, in particularly brilliant form, in the youngest of Jack Lesmana's five children, is a remarkable phenomenon. The gifted 14-year-old Indra Lesmana, who plays electric and acoustic piano, is a child prodigy who seems destined to be a great jazz musician…

DALY-WILSON: DYNAMIC BIG BAND

by Eric Myers

Sydney Morning Herald, April 12, 1980

LETTER TO ERIC MYERS

by Warren Daly OAM

Posted August 24, 2020

The Daly-Wilson Big Band re-emerged for the first time in 1980 for a series of concerts at the Argyle Courtyard last week. The Sydney Morning Herald jazz critic ERIC MYERS takes a look at the story of one of the most dynamic big bands Australia has seen….