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, Sunset Jazz Club and the renowned Jamboree Jazz Club in Barcelona in December 2005. A finalist in the 2005 Peter Whittingham 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. Other performances include the Istanbul Jazz Centre in Turkey and Ondajazz in Portugal.

For the London Jazz Festival 2007, Andy appeared as Chet Baker in the play “Speedball” which received great press coverage in The Independent, The Observer, and ran for two weeks at the world famous jazz venue 606 Club in London. Not afraid of the lime light, Andy appeared on JazzJury (theJazz.com Nov 2007) and BBC Radio 3 (Nov 2007), where he discussed his role as Chet Baker and trumpeting career to date, which further raised his profile as an artist and for his Quartet.

On the 1st December 2007, they released their second album called “Getting Giggy” . Distributed by Proper Music and The Orchard, which is now available at Amazon, Play.com, HMV, iTunes, eMusic , LoveFilm to name a few.

Past Concerts Highlights

SPAIN - Jamboree, Jazz Terrassa, Sunset Jazz Club, Harlem Jazz Club
PORTUGAL - Ondajazz
TURKEY - Istanbul Jazz Centre
ITALY - Biella Jazz Club , Jazz Al Vapore, Scimmi Jazz Club, MOntecristo Jazz Club,Ivrea Jazz Club, Borgoclub, Chet Baker Club, Caruso Jazz Cafe', Ivrea Jazz Club, Jazz in Moleto,Varese Open Jazz Festival 2004, Bocabarranca Jazz Club, Moleto International Jazz Festival, Nord Est Cafe'
UK - The Blue Lamp, Matt & Phred's Jazz Club,Cafe' Jazz, The Be Bop Club, Spice Of Life, the Wardrobe, Swansea Jazzland, Wigan Jazz club, Swansea Jazzland, Cardiff Jazz Cafe', Jazz At The Riverbank , Jazz In the Round, Arts Depot of London, Manchester Jazz Festival, Pontypool Jazz Festival, National Theatre, Swanage Jazz Festival, Isle Of Wight Jazz Festival, Zeffirelli's
JAPAN - Tokyo Opera House, Tokyo Cygnus Jazz Club, Kunitachi Music Academy Of Tokyo

Line up:
Trumpet
Piano
Bass
Drums