Pete Roth Trio
Jazzaldia
San Sebastian, Spain
2025-07-23

Peter Roth-electric guitar
Bill Bruford-drums
Mike Pratt-electric bass

source/lineage-DVB-S; rtve, 2025-07=23; Bit rate: 12 Mb/s; foobar 2.25; Audacity; TLH; DIME

1. How Insensitive (A. C. Jobim) 8:12
2. Full Circle (Bruford / Roth / Pratt) 6:36
3. If Summer had Its Ghosts (Bruford) 7:57
4. New World Symphony (Antonin Dvorak) 9:38
5. Original Sin (Bruford) 7:47
6. Billies Bounce (Charlie Parker) 5:47
7. Dancing With Grace (Pete Roth) 6:08
8. Looking forward to Looking back (Bruford / Roth / Pratt) 4:20
9. Mr. P.C. (Coltrane) 4:26
10. Summertime (Gershwin) 6:54

Like many fans coming out of the Prog and Fusion days of the 70's, Bill Bruford was a bit of a touchstone for me. Beginning with Prog associations from Yes, Crimson, Genesis, U.K., and then his own excellent fusion band at the end of the decade, he was integral to a lot of the music I digested then. That continued, of course, into the continuing Crimson world beyond the 70's and a lot of really fine "jazzier" music under his own name leading Earthworks. His retirement at about the age of 60 left a bit of a musical hole for his admirers, particularly in light of continuing activity by many of his own musical peers. With the idea of "never say never", he's been back on the bandstand now for much of 2025 as part of the Trio showcased here.
This show came to my attention via some wonderful European based DIME'rs, and huge thanks to them. I've prepped it for this share by extracting the audio through foobar, and then tracking the show in Audacity. It's a wonderful presentation of the group at this point in time, and you can also watch a video of this over on youtube. As I'm more of an audio listener than a video watcher, I felt others might appreciate having the show from rtve itself in this audio format too. As you'll note from the track list above, the trio has a diverse repertoire, and the samples below will give a good idea of what you'll be hearing. For better or worse, I'd gone with the track titles that are shown with the youtube video, but I do know they'd mixed things up having Summertime as track 9, when it's clearly track 10, so if anyone spots errors, please indicate them in the comments below, and I'll fix them up here.
For what it's worth, the other shares I've seen or heard from this group have all been audience sourced, so this show is coming over now in what might arguably be better sonic form. 3 of those shares are still live on the tracker, and no intended knock against the sonics of what's been share before from the group. In fact, the Pete Roth Trio's website indicates that it is soon to begin a run of about 30 dates in Europe from later this month up to early December. Here's hoping that a few more of these upcoming shows might make their way to us in one form or another.