The Andy Davies Quartet was formed in January 2004 as a platform for promoting original music, with an inaugural tour of South Wales, playing at jazz clubs including Swansea Jazzland, the Cardiff Jazz Café and Jazz at The Riverbank. In August 2004 they performed in Italy at venues including the Bocabarranca Jazz club, Nord Est Cafe, The Drome and the Varese Open Jazz Fest. In October of the same year the band visited Japan where they performed at the Tokyo Opera House and held workshops at the prestigious Kunitachi Music Academy of Tokyo. The quartet released their debut CD in March 2005, which was promoted during a tour of Italy (sponsored by Trinity College of Music and endorsed by Mark Bass Italia) which included performances in Turin, Milan, Florence, Genoa, Venice and the Chet Baker Jazz Club in Bologna. The quartet received impressive reviews which can be viewed at www.jazzitalia.net and www.jazzconvention.net .

In September the Andy Davies Quartet received a ‘special mention’ by the jury of Jazz Granada 2005 and the quartet continued to gain an international reputation, performing in Jazz Terrassa, Girona and the renowned Jamboree Jazz Club in Barcelona in December 2005. A finalist in the 2005 Peter Whittington Jazz Competition, the Andy Davies quartet was awarded a Musicians Benevolent Fund Development Award because of the ‘exceptional standard’. The quartet was selected as a recipient for Jazz Services Funding for a British tour in November 2005 when the Andy Davies Quartet performed in Wigan, Manchester, Leeds, Aberdeen, London, Bristol, Torquay and Cardiff.

Recent performances include Manchester Jazz Festival, Pontypool Jazz Festival, National Theatre Jazz Festival, Moleto International jazz Festival, and many more.

Line up:
Trumpet
Piano
Bass
Drums