Pete Roth Trio (Featuring Bill Bruford)

The Pete Roth Trio, featuring legendary drummer Bill Bruford, will bring its adventurous and highly interactive approach to jazz to Liverpool this Autumn.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.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.