Pete Roth Trio

A year and a half on from their dramatic sell-out gig here, we are delighted to welcome back Pete Roth Trio featuring drum legend Bill Bruford.

This newly road-tested power trio – Pete Roth (guitar) and Stefan Redtenbacher (bass) plus the freshly out-of-retirement Bruford – will offer some explosive, electric jazz reimaginings as the former King Crimson and Yes sticksman continues his remarkable comeback.

We’re very privileged that this supergroup, who made Wolverhampton their first outing from their south-east base last year, kick-starting 12 months of globetrotting, requested to return to our venue, having had such a great time on their last visit.

Revered prog-rocker Bill, who also had a short stint with Genesis, has long been fascinated by and involved in jazz. He followed his own jazz-fusion outfit Bruford (which included Allan Holdsworth) with the hugely successful Bill Bruford’s Earthworks that involved, at various times, collaborations with heroes of the genre such as Django Bates, Iain Ballamy, Tim Garland and Gwilym Simcock. He then retired in 2009, and seemingly settled for a life outside of gigging, before being bitten by the bug once again.

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

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

Roth’s original compositions, such as Dancing With Grace, the Trio’s collaborative works like Part Of The Charm and Looking Forward To Looking Back, or their reinterpretation of masterworks such as Dvořák’s Largo from Symphony No. 9, have offered just a few gateways into the creative world of PRT, a world that will likely reshape your perspective on what the guitar trio format can achieve.