The current line-up of jazz quartet A Beach Supreme as featured on the album “Volume One” is:

Pete Kubryk-Townsend.
Pete started his musical career at the age of 16 when he went to live in Paris, which he used as a base for several years for gigs and busking around Europe until he moved back to his native London in 1986. He then threw himself into double-bass on the capital’s Jazz scene but also studied with Cachaoito Lopez from the Buena Vista Social Club and picked up gigs with Robin Jones’ King Salsa and other Latino bands on the London club circuit. He was a member of Tim Richards’ Spirit Level from 1990 - 97 and worked with most of the UK’s top jazz names, like Jim Mullen, Gilad Atzmon, Mornington Lockett, Don Rendell & Dick Heckstall-Smith. He also backed US artists Ron Jackson, Howard Levy, Ronnie Kuber, Spike Robinson and Jean Toussaint. A career highlight was accompanying the great Chicago “beat” wordsmith Ken Nordine at the Royal Festival Hall- an event that led him to tour his own live Jazz Poetry project. Pete’s stylistic breadth led to work with international artists including Hassa Eraraji, Mervin Afrika and Hugh Masekela. He’s been in Cornwall for almost a decade and teaches bass on the Truro College Jazz degree course: he is also regularly working with international stars of Gypsy Jazz like Angelo Debarre, Birelli Legrene and Fapy Lafertin, and is currently in John Etheridge’s group “Sweet Chorus.”

Marc Hadley.
Marc’s professional career also started as a busker in Paris, in the summer of 1986- Pete was on his way back to London, so they never met on the Boulevard St Michel. However, tenor sax legend Dexter Gordon was around for the production of the film “Round Midnight”, and this profoundly influenced the direction that Marc’s playing subsequently took. In 1987 he returned to London to take a diploma in Jazz at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he studied under Don Rendell, Jean Toussaint and John Harle. While he was there, he formed a band incorporating a string quartet, and when regular bassist Richard Jeffries fell ill in 1988, Pete stepped in to cover for a few gigs…Marc’s twenty-year career in London included studio session work for various record labels, advertising agencies and TV production companies including Chrysalis, Virgin Records, Channel 4, BBC 2, Granada, Kudos and Diverse. As well as playing in jazz/fusion bands in the UK, France, Belgium and The Netherlands, he also spent eight years with Brazilian/Latino dance band “Viramundo” and worked with many West African musicians, including Fela Kuti sidemen Emmanuel and Arroga. Since his arrival in Cornwall in 2004 he has worked with the Knee High Theatre and Jim Carey’s “Bombrassa” at The Eden Project winter seasons; and featured as a soloist on “8am”, the acclaimed 2008 album release by Kris Gayle and Viv Rodd. Marc also teaches saxophone on the Jazz degree course at Truro College.

Richard Penrose.
At school, Richard’s precocious talent as a classical pianist stood out, and he gained entrance to Salford University to do a degree in Pop music and recording. His obvious skill made him a shoe-in as pianist for the Salford University Big Band, a chair that he occupied for three years. In spite of his classical training, he developed a keen interest in the Hammond organ and discovered his true passion was for Jazz piano. After graduating, he returned to his home county of Cornwall and began playing and teaching full-time. Over the years Richard has played with numerous visiting international Jazz artists such as Alan Barnes, Jim Mullen, Tim Whitehead, Martin Shaw, Pete King and Bill Watrous. He was also a judge for BBC Radio Cornwall’s ‘Singing Sensation’. He has many recording credits, working in Cornwall and London with Pop and Jazz artists, and is a “beta tester” for major music software companies. Away from The Beach, he also works with Soul/Gospel singer Lee Adewole and somehow finds time to be musical director of the ‘Light and Life Gospel Choir’!

Damian Rodd.
Damian was born and raised in Cornwall. The son of pianist Viv Rodd, Damian's musical career started at fourteen when he began playing at the Newquay Theatre with a small ensemble of piano and drums. He picked up the bass guitar at fifteen, was instantly hooked, and toured Scandinavia and parts of Europe as a jazz musician. After two years working in Manchester he won a newspaper competition to play at the Marquee in London and decided to stay in the capital to participate in the heyday of the eighties music boom. A 9 month stint working on a cruise liner honed his drumming skills. A year later he moved to Brussels and played with an array of African and Turkish Musicians, running a production studio at the same time. While a member of triphop band Lowpass, Damian toured with Lamb and Tricky, refuelling his love for electronic music and crossover styles. He moved back to the UK in 2001 and was inevitably drawn back to Cornwall, since when he has set up his production studio (Big Milk,) and connected with other music professionals via live gigs and teaching work on the Truro Jazz degree course. In 2008 he produced the album “8am” with his father and vocalist Kris Gayle; this release was named “album of the week” in the London Evening Standard, picked up extensive radio play on US Jazz radio stations and was prominently featured on Sir Michael Parkinson’s website.