# Pete Roth Trio Full Public Context

> Pete Roth Trio featuring Pete Roth, Mike Pratt, and Bill Bruford. Tour dates, tickets, videos, photos, reviews, and official shop links.

## Site Purpose
PRT strives for an intimate, relatively unscripted music that thrives in small places and dark corners. Jazz, funk, contemporary classical, Dvorak. Nothing is sacred. It is not retro. It is not comfortable. It is just brilliantly unruly.

The Pete Roth Trio, featuring Pete on guitar, Mike Pratt on bass, and Bill Bruford on drums, offers a near-jazz experience that is intimate, improvised, and deeply interactive.

The music unfolds as a conversation between players and audience, where every performance becomes a unique exploration of sound, texture, and connection.

## Core Pages
- [Home](https://www.peterothtrio.com/): Overview, highlighted tour dates, mailing list signup, about section, videos, releases, reviews, and contact links.
- [Tour Dates & Tickets](https://www.peterothtrio.com/tour): Public show listings with separate RSVP and ticket links where available.
- [Videos & Photos](https://www.peterothtrio.com/media): Video archive and performance photo gallery.
- [About](https://www.peterothtrio.com/about): Band overview and individual member biographies.
- [Press](https://www.peterothtrio.com/press): Interviews, pull quotes, and media context.
- [Shop](https://www.peterothtrio.com/shop): Official merchandise and secure hosted checkout flow.
- [Agents](https://www.peterothtrio.com/agents): Booking agents by territory.
- [Contact](https://www.peterothtrio.com/contact): Best route for public enquiries.
- [Privacy](https://www.peterothtrio.com/privacy): Public privacy notes for newsletter, cart, external services, and email contact.

## Band Members
### Pete Roth

Role: Guitar

Guitarist, composer, bandleader, and session player shaping the trio's electric near-jazz vocabulary.

Pete Roth is a versatile artist and accomplished session guitarist. Born in Germany, he began playing guitar at the age of 11 in a family deeply rooted in music.

His early musical language was shaped by the emotional directness of blues and the energy of rock. Later, after moving to England to study jazz, he immersed himself in a wider vocabulary influenced by players such as Joe Pass, John Scofield, and Julian Lage.

Before forming this trio, Pete recorded two albums as a leader for MGP Records and built a broad career across live bands, studio sessions, theatre productions, tribute work, and record label collaborations.

The Pete Roth Trio is his first trio adventure: a space for intricate melodies, agile rhythms, electric detail, and compositions that leave room for close listening and spontaneous exchange.

### Mike Pratt

Role: Bass

A London-based bassist, composer, producer, and improviser with a composer's ear for groove and texture.

Mike Pratt is a double bass and bass guitar player, composer, and producer based in London.

Early in his career he was drawn to funk, acid jazz, fusion, and the music of Weather Report, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, Steps Ahead, John Scofield, Charles Mingus, and Duke Ellington.

Mike performed fortnightly at Ronnie Scott's for several years with Shorter Than Miles. He plays and writes for the jazz fusion project KGQ with Kieron Garrett, Dave O'Higgins, and Duncan Eagles, and has performed with Acantha Lang and Liane Carroll.

His credits include the Cape Town Jazz Festival, the Jazz Cafe, the Royal Albert Hall, Kingston University teaching, composition work for Ford and the FIA, bass recordings for the documentary Stewart, and musical direction for the live theatre rockumentary Seven Decades.

In the Pete Roth Trio, Mike steps away from the traditional support role of the bass to become an equal melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic partner in the conversation.

### Bill Bruford

Role: Drums

A restless drummer and bandleader whose jazz instincts sit beside a long history of rock innovation.

Internationally known as a rock musician, drummer Bill Bruford also has deep jazz credentials, having recorded, performed with, or written music for Al Di Meola, the Buddy Rich Orchestra, David Torn, Allan Holdsworth, Tim Garland, Django Bates, Iain Ballamy, and Chris Botti among others.

Early success led into a 40-year career as a bandleader and writer. His groups Bruford and Earthworks helped push advanced harmony in rock, electronics and odd metres in electric jazz, and stylistic invention in acoustic jazz.

Bill's taste for unpredictable live performance has led him to collaborations with leading rock and jazz musicians in a long search for the innovative, the unusual, and the unlikely.

He was voted into Modern Drummer magazine's Hall of Fame in 1990, named by Rolling Stone as one of the greatest drummers of all time in 2016, and inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Yes in 2017.

Straddling jazz and rock, his recorded work is documented through Summerfold and Winterfold Records, his YouTube channel, and billbruford.com. In the Pete Roth Trio, that history is placed inside a small, responsive, risk-friendly group.

## Tour Context
Tour entries can include RSVP links and ticket links from Bandsintown. The public site falls back to checked-in tour content when the live feed is unavailable.

- Fri, 25 Sept 2026 - Riverhouse Barn, Walton-on-thames, United Kingdom. RSVP: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/108668199?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=event; Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/t/108668199?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=ticket
- Thu, 8 Oct 2026 - BIX Jazzclub & Lounge, Stuttgart, Germany. RSVP: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/108690303?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=event; Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/t/108690303?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=ticket
- Fri, 9 Oct 2026 - Das Rind, Rüsselsheim, Germany. RSVP: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/108690312?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=event; Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/t/108690312?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=ticket
- Sun, 11 Oct 2026 - NICA JAZZ CLUB, Hamburg, Germany. RSVP: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/108690330?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=event; Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/t/108690330?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=ticket
- Mon, 12 Oct 2026 - Zig Zag Jazz Club Berlin, Berlin, Germany. RSVP: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/108736081?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=event; Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/t/108736081?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=ticket
- Fri, 23 Oct 2026 - The Capstone Theatre, Liverpool, United Kingdom. RSVP: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/108110810?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=event; Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/t/108110810?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=ticket
- Sat, 24 Oct 2026 - The Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre, Durham, United Kingdom. RSVP: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/108469357?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=event; Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/t/108469357?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=ticket
- Sun, 8 Nov 2026 - Band on the Wall, Manchester, United Kingdom. RSVP: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/107982609?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=event; Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/t/107982609?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=ticket
- Wed, 27 Jan 2027 - Foxlowe Arts Centre, Leek, United Kingdom. RSVP: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/108469413?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=event; Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/t/108469413?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=ticket
- Thu, 28 Jan 2027 - Crookes Social Club, Sheffield, United Kingdom. RSVP: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/108469541?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=event; Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/t/108469541?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=ticket
- Fri, 29 Jan 2027 - Wrecking Ball Music and Books, Kingston Upon Hull, United Kingdom. RSVP: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/108205005?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=event; Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/t/108205005?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=ticket
- Sat, 30 Jan 2027 - Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom. RSVP: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/108469489?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=event; Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/t/108469489?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=ticket
- Thu, 4 Feb 2027 - Spirit Of 66, Verviers, Belgium. RSVP: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/1039520037?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=event; Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/t/1039520037?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=ticket
- Sat, 6 Feb 2027 - Pete Roth Tio feat. Bill Bruford, Utrecht, Netherlands. RSVP: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/108690389?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=event; Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/t/108690389?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=ticket
- Mon, 8 Feb 2027 - Hotel Cecil, København K, Denmark. RSVP: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/108690407?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=event; Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/t/108690407?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=ticket
- Wed, 17 Feb 2027 - Acapela Studio, Cardiff, United Kingdom. RSVP: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/108469513?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=event; Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/t/108469513?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=ticket
- Tue, 23 Feb 2027 - Capitol, Pordenone, Italy. RSVP: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/1039706932?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=event; Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/t/1039706932?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=ticket
- Wed, 24 Feb 2027 - Teatro CTM, Rezzato, Italy. RSVP: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/1039685267?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=event; Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/t/1039685267?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=ticket
- Thu, 25 Feb 2027 - Spazio Teatro 89, Milan, Italy. RSVP: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/1039685248?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=event; Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/t/1039685248?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=ticket
- Fri, 26 Feb 2027 - Piazza dei Mestieri, Torino, Italy. RSVP: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/1039684875?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=event; Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/t/1039684875?came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=ticket

## Releases And Shop
- Group Chat: The new Pete Roth Trio featuring Bill Bruford release is available to pre-order from Cherry Red Records. https://www.cherryred.co.uk/pete-roth-trio-featuring-bill-bruford-group-chat-cd-dvd-edition
- The Best of Bill Bruford: A 3 CD box set reissuing two long out-of-print albums and collecting drummer, composer, and bandleader Bill Bruford's recordings for the Winterfold and Summerfold labels. https://www.cherryred.co.uk/bill-bruford-the-best-of-bill-bruford-the-winterfold-summerfold-years-3cd-box-set
- PRT special edition signature hoodie: £50.00. https://www.peterothtrio.com/product-page/prt-special-edition-signature-hoodie
- Looking forward to looking back sheet music black hoodie: £45.00. https://www.peterothtrio.com/product-page/looking-forward-to-looking-back-sheet-music-black-hoodie
- PRT Special edition signature T-shirt: £30.00. https://www.peterothtrio.com/product-page/prt-special-edition-signature-t-shirt
- PRT 2026 T-shirt: £30.00. https://www.peterothtrio.com/product-page/prt-2026-t-shirt
- Our mug collection - PRT autumn tour 2025: £18.00. https://www.peterothtrio.com/product-page/our-mug-collection-prt-autumn-tour-2025
- PRT New 2025 Autumn Tour: £18.00. https://www.peterothtrio.com/product-page/prt-new-2025-autumn-tour

## Videos
- Pete Roth Trio feat. Bill Bruford New DVD Preview: New DVD preview. A new DVD preview from Pete Roth Trio featuring Bill Bruford. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPDJEUh-W-A
- Summertime: Live in Donostia / San Sebastian. Pete Roth Trio featuring Bill Bruford perform Summertime live in Donostia / San Sebastian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ctvtKUprkw
- How Insensitive: Live at Jazzaldia. An excerpt from How Insensitive by Pete Roth Trio featuring Bill Bruford, filmed live at Jazzaldia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXhgcJRI1A8
- Guitar Solo Ending: Antonio Carlos Jobim's How Insensitive. Pete Roth Trio perform a guitar-led ending from Antonio Carlos Jobim's How Insensitive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO9UhWsojks
- Full Circle Bass Break: Live at Trading Boundaries. A bass break from Full Circle, performed live by Pete Roth Trio at Trading Boundaries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T259M-BeNXI
- Full Circle: Live at Trading Boundaries. Pete Roth Trio perform Full Circle live at Trading Boundaries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EWpXtUZyXI
- Live at Trading Boundaries: Free improvisation inspired by Dvorak. Pete Roth Trio perform a short free improvisation live at Trading Boundaries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrNdW0sHcbI
- Pete Roth Trio EPK: Electronic press kit. The Pete Roth Trio electronic press kit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tFlvNn8Heg

## Photos
- Pete Roth live on guitar.: Pete Roth playing electric guitar on a dark stage. Credit: Pete Roth Trio archive. https://www.peterothtrio.com/media/photos/hero-live.webp
- Pete Roth, guitar.: Pete Roth with an electric guitar for Pete Roth Trio. Credit: Leon Barker. https://www.peterothtrio.com/media/members/pete-roth.webp
- Mike Pratt, bass.: Mike Pratt with his bass for Pete Roth Trio. Credit: Leon Barker. https://www.peterothtrio.com/media/members/mike-pratt.webp
- Bill Bruford, drums.: Bill Bruford seated at a drum kit during a Pete Roth Trio performance. Credit: Leon Barker. https://www.peterothtrio.com/media/members/bill-bruford.webp
- Stage lights and improvisation from the Pete Roth Trio archive.: Pete Roth Trio onstage under blue and purple lighting in a jazz venue. Credit: Pete Roth Trio archive. https://www.peterothtrio.com/media/photos/gallery-01.webp
- Pete Roth on guitar.: Pete Roth playing electric guitar under blue stage lighting. Credit: Pete Roth Trio archive. https://www.peterothtrio.com/media/photos/gallery-02.webp
- The trio in performance.: Pete Roth Trio performing together with guitar, bass, and drums in close interplay. Credit: Pete Roth Trio archive. https://www.peterothtrio.com/media/photos/gallery-03.webp

## Press And Reviews
Interviews, reviews, and pull quotes for editors, promoters, venues, and listeners following the Pete Roth Trio story.

- Pete Roth: jazz trio that lives on the outer limits of improv, Guitar World (17 September 2025): Pete Roth talks about the trio's formation, melodic freedom, gear, and the risk of making every night different. https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/pete-roth-trio-with-bill-bruford
- Bill Bruford Interview, UK Jazz News (15 March 2025): Bill Bruford reflects on returning to music, playing for fun, and the chemistry of the Pete Roth Trio. https://ukjazznews.com/bill-bruford-interview/
- Q&A with Bill Bruford, RingSide Report: A focused interview on Bruford's renewed appetite for playing and the pull of the trio's live interplay. https://ringsidereport.com/?p=127309
- The Pete Roth Trio's Japan Tour: The Magic of Unpredictable Interplay, Jaz.in (18 July 2025): Coverage of the Japan tour and the trio's audience-facing sense of movement, surprise, and exchange. https://jazin.net/?p=2580
- Bill Bruford: No vendo destreza, vendo ideas, ProgJazz (5 May 2025): A Spanish-language conversation with Bill Bruford on ideas, skill, and the musical argument of the trio. https://www.progjazz.org/bruford-entrevista/
- Bill Bruford: And there was light, Jazz Magazine (May 2025): A print feature following Bruford's return to live performance and the creative lift of the Pete Roth Trio.

- Erkki-Sven Tuur, ECM recording artist: "Absolutely astonishing and amazing musicianship"
- Satakunnan Kansa, Pori, Finland: "One sign of the players' immense professionalism was that it did not need to be put on display. Even the most virtuosic solos avoided unnecessary showboating, and rich soundscapes were built at times with striking subtlety."
- Kathryn Shackleton, UK Jazz News: "'Full Circle' [was] a driving funk original with plenty of effects pedal over a bass-drum groove, and it was here rather than in the jazz tunes that the band sounded as though they had found their natural habitat."
- Fasching Club, Stockholm: "Jazz, funk, contemporary classical, Dvorak. Nothing is sacred. It's not retro. It's not comfortable. It's just brilliantly unruly."
- Colin Clark, Director, Petersfield Jazz Festival '24: "With three such talented musicians it shouldn't have been a surprise, but the way they played together exceeded all expectations. This is simply a great band - a strong favourite of ours and all our attendees."
- Satoyasu Shomura, Rhythm and Drums Magazine, Tokyo: "Pete Roth's solo, incorporating sweeping techniques, reached incredible intensity. Whether responding to Roth or being challenged by his former pupil, Bruford's drumming grew increasingly fierce and intense. As the music pushed toward its climactic peak, Mike Pratt's bass held the balance, grounding the drama with poise and elegance."
- Vortex Jazz: "Roth's compositions range from instantly memorable melodies giving rise to filigree-delicate acoustic work."
- Darren Walker, The Progressive Aspect: "The audience might have been predominantly Prog aficionados, but they left as Jazz fans."
- Edinburgh Music Review: "They know the rules and want to break them. Not in order to be perverse or trendy, but so that they can put something rich, worthwhile and fun back into jazz soil."

## Booking And Contact
- Leonardo Pavkovic, MoonJune Music: Worldwide except UK, Germany, and Northern Europe. Email: moonjunerecords@gmail.com
- Jeff Aug, MAXIMUM Booking: Germany and Northern Europe. Email: info@MAXIMUMBooking.com; Phone: +49 (0) 177 642 4221
- Pete Conway UK, PCM / Peter Conway Management: United Kingdom. Email: peter@peterconwaymanagement.com

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