The Pete Roth Trio features leader Pete Roth on guitar, Mike Pratt on bass, and the incomparable Bill Bruford on drums. The band creates jazz for a new generation of music enthusiasts, exploring beyond traditional jazz conventions. A jazz standard might reveal its essence only in the final moments of performance.
Roth’s original compositions, such as Dancing with Grace, the Trio’s collaborative works like Trio in Five and Looking Forward to Looking Back, or their reinterpretation of masterworks like Anton Dvorak’s Largo from Symphony #9, offer just a few gateways into the creative world of the Pete Roth Trio—a world that will likely reshape your perspective on what the guitar trio format can achieve.
“The gig itself was joyous, diverse, intrepid and thoroughly enjoyable” - Edinburgh Music Review
"Roth's compositions range from instantly memorable melodies giving rise to filigree-delicateacoustic work" - Vortex Jazz
“They know the rules and want to break them. Not in order to be perverse or trendy, but so thatthey can put something rich, worthwhile and fun back into jazz soil” - Edinburgh Music Review
“The audience might have been predominantly Prog aficionados but they left as Jazz fans” - Darren Walker, The Progressive Aspect