The Pete Roth Trio, featuring legendary drummer Bill Bruford, will bring its adventurous and highly interactive approach to jazz to The Capstone Theatre in Liverpool on Friday 23rd October 2026, for what is an absolute must for jazz enthusiasts.
Led by guitarist Pete Roth, with Mike Pratt on bass and Bill Bruford on drums, the trio occupies a musical space somewhere between jazz, rock, funk and contemporary classical music. Rather than treating those genres as fixed categories, the musicians use them as starting points for performances built around improvisation, close listening and the interplay between three distinctive musical voices.
The result is what the band describes as “near-jazz”: intimate, relatively unscripted music in which compositions can change shape in the moment and the relationship between the musicians — and between performers and audience — becomes an important part of the experience.
“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
Above all, the Pete Roth Trio is conceived as a live band. Its music depends upon three musicians reacting to one another in real time, meaning that the precise direction of a piece — and sometimes its destination — may only become clear as the performance unfolds.
The Pete Roth Trio featuring Bill Bruford performs at The Capstone Theatre in Liverpool on Friday 23rd October at 7.30pm. Tickets are £22 and are available now via the venue’s website here