WHEN The Band Room’s promoter, Nigel Burnham, introduces tonight’s concert as “And now for something completely different”, you can be sure that will be the case at his arts hub, deep in the Yorkshire moorlands at Low Mill.

“Jazz meets rock meets classical when one of the greatest drummers in the world, the impossibly inventive New Yorker Sean Noonan, climaxes a nine-country European tour with a grand finale at The Band Room,” says Nigel.

“Noonan – the missing link between Keith Moon, Buddy Rich and John Bonham – defies belief. He’s played with original Can vocalist Malcolm Mooney; American jazz guitarist Marc Ribot, who has worked with Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits and John Zorn; and legendary free jazz bassist (and Ornette Coleman sideman) Jamaaladeen Tacuma.”

The list of Noonan credits goes on, taking in Malian virtuoso guitarist Abdoulaye Diabate and keyboard wizard Matthew Bourne too. Now comes his latest album, In The Ring, the second in his A Gambler’s Hand series, which has moved the wonderfully named Critical Jazz to call it a “virtually faultless execution of art at an apex of creativity”.

Tonight the Irish-American Noonan will be conducting the Polish Gambler’s Hand String Quarter...with his drumsticks. Something completely different indeed.

Sean Noonan: A Gambler’s Hand, The Art of Spontaneous Combustion, The Band Room, Low Mill, Farndale, near Kirkbymoorside, tonight at 8pm. Doors open at 7.30pm for the 8pm start. Box office: 01751 432900.