AN ECLECTIC quartet will be appearing at the Bridport Jazz Cafe tomorrow (19).

The Ronnie Jones Quartet approach their music with a combination of vigour and subtlety, performing tasteful reworkings of some of the best music that the jazz repertoire has to offer - from percussion-fuelled Latin to ballads, bringing out the inherent tension and emotion in the pieces.

Drummer and bandleader Ronnie Jones has performed at the Welsh National Opera House, and he is joined by Gary Bayley on saxophone, Joss Kidd on guitar and David George on the bass. The band has been a hit at jazz festivals including Teignmouth and London.

The musicians in Ronnie’s quartet are all experienced players and have appeared everywhere from The Welsh Proms to the Teignmouth Jazz Festival.

Ronnie first started playing jazz while studying at Cardiff University. It was here that he also first appeared as a Latin percussionist, regularly performing to hundreds of people with funk band Planet Janet. The band went on to play at high profile clubs on the jazz circuit such as Jagz in Ascot. Ronnie still plays with some of the musicians from his student days, joining them to appear at The Welsh Proms in a new project called Kookamunga last summer.

Saxophonist Gary Bayley learned his craft in the Southampton big-bands and from the musicians of the trans-Atlantic liners passing between New York and London.

Bassist David George discovered his musical vocation after picking up an upright bass for the first time at a Dartington Hall summer school. Gaining a jazz education at the now legendary workshops run by Totnes Jazz Collective, he went on to play regularly at the Collective’s gigs and with groups convened by several of its members including Lewis Riley and Sam Richards.

The event takes place at 8pm at Bridport Arts Centre. For more information, please call 01308 424204.