Group Chat Pete Roth Trio & Mike Pratt, Bill Bruford

• 1 Full Circle 05:39
• 2 Part Of The Charm 06:25
• 3 Group Chat 05:23
• 4 Improvisation on the Largo from Dvořák’s Symphony #9 07:46
• 5 Looking Forward To Looking Back 07:43
• 6 Summertime 04:34
• 7 Dancing With Grace 05:58
• 8 Original Sin 08:23
• 9 Hard Case, Soft Centre 04:56
• Total Runtime 56:47

Info zu Group Chat

(Glass Onyon) The Pete Roth Trio return with Group Chat, a striking new release that captures the spontaneity, interplay and fearless musical conversation at the heart of this exceptional band.

Led by guitarist Pete Roth, alongside bassist Mike Pratt and legendary drummer Bill Bruford, Group Chat is Roth's third major album and a release of particular significance, marking Bruford's eagerly awaited return to headline performance after a 13-year hiatus, as well as his first appearance on new material in 19 years.

Produced by Pete Roth and Bill Bruford for Winterfold Records, Group Chat presents a trio that thrives on intimacy, risk and connection. Rooted in jazz but never constrained by it, the music moves fluidly through funk, contemporary classical influences and spontaneous improvisation, with nothing treated as untouchable. Original compositions such as Full Circle, Dancing With Grace and Original Sin sit alongside collaborative pieces including Part Of The Charm and Looking Forward To Looking Back, while the trio's inspired Improvisation on the Largo from Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 underlines the breadth of their musical imagination. The result is a record that feels adventurous, immediate and alive - music made in the moment by three musicians listening as deeply as they play.

The release is presented as a two-disc digipak CD/DVD edition, complete with a booklet containing extensive notes and group photographs. Alongside the nine-track audio album, the package includes a bonus 35-minute DVD offering further insight into the trio's world, with performances, an introduction, and a special spoken segment from Pete Roth.

The music press reaction's have been emphatic. "The Pete Roth Trio is a band of equals, clearly loving the opportunity to improvise and have musical conversations," wrote Biff Bam Pop!, while Innerviews praised the music as "rich with nuance, invention, and telepathic rapport." Dr. Jazz Talks described the album as "a feast of rhythm and melody," and Make Weird Music summed up its appeal succinctly: "I wish more jazz was this much fun." Another review captured the trio's balancing act perfectly, calling it "loose enough that it could fall apart and tight enough that it grooves."

Pete Roth brings to Group Chat a background that spans blues, rock and jazz, shaped first in Germany and then refined through his studies and career in the UK. Mike Pratt, a highly regarded bassist, composer and producer with deep roots in jazz fusion and groove-based music, brings both harmonic imagination and rhythmic authority to the trio. For Bruford, whose career has encompassed groundbreaking work with Yes, King Crimson, Earthworks and a host of major jazz collaborators, Group Chat reflects a continuing commitment to the innovative, the unusual and the unlikely. Together, the three musicians create an experience that reshapes expectations of the guitar trio format, making space for melody, texture, groove and surprise in equal measure.

Group Chat is a vivid document of three distinctive musical voices in open conversation - intimate, exploratory, witty and deeply alive.

“The audience might have been predominantly prog aficionados, but they left as jazz fans.” (Darren Walker, The Progressive Aspect)

“Jazz, funk, contemporary classical, Dvořák. Nothing is sacred. It’s not retro. It’s not comfortable. It’s just brilliantly unruly.” (Fasching, Stockholm)

Pete Roth, guitar
Mike Pratt, bass
Bill Bruford, drums

Produced by Pete Roth and Bill Bruford for Winterfold Records

Pete Roth Trio
featuring Pete on guitar, Mike Pratt on bass, and the incomparable 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. Roth's original compositions, the Trio's collaborative works, and their reinterpretations of masterworks such as Dvorak's Largo from Symphony No. 9 are gateways into a creative world that reshapes what the guitar trio format can achieve.

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.

Dieses Album enthält kein Booklet