Jazz Sessions 2025 28th February

Jazz Sessions 2025 28th February

Jazz Sessions @ Ex Cellar Wine Café Kingston

Presents

Sefan Redtenbacher & Pete Roth

with special guest

Rob Fowler 

28th February 2025

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Robert’s jazz career first started whilst studying Graphic Design in Bristol.  

He played with a variety of local bands, and often appeared at the famous 

‘Old Duke’ where he regularly sat in with visiting stars such as Danny 

Moss, Roy Williams, Colin Smith and Brian Lemon. 


On graduating in 1986, he was approached to play with The Pasadena 

Roof Orchestra, on the recommendation of NYJO boss Bill Ashton. Thus 

followed a decade of international and national touring, travelling much of 

Europe, the USA and the UK, which Robert found invaluable - nurturing his 

early talent and developing his rich sound. 


Robert has worked across different musical genres; In 1999 Robert was 

asked to play on a session by Bryan Ferry, for the album ‘As Time goes 

by’. This led to further touring and recording with Bryan, appearing on his 

albums ‘Frantic’, ‘Avonmore’, and the ‘Jazz Age’, as well as collaborating 

on the soundtrack to Baz Luhrman’s ‘Great Gatsby’ and Sky TV’s ‘Babylon 

Berlin’ series. His association with Bryan continues today.  


As well as Bryan, Robert has toured with Rufus Wainwright, Motown 

legends, The Four Tops and the Temptations, and was also in the resident 

live band at the 2015 London Palladium show: ‘Frank Sinatra, the Man and 

his Music’. He has also played on many other Film and TV sessions as 

well as Orchestral dates with the John Wilson Orchestra, The CBSO, the 

BBC Concert Orchestra, the RTE Concert Orchestra and the Royal 

Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. 


Jazz remains Robert’s passion. He has worked with many bands from the 

British jazz scene, working with The Great British Jazz Band, The BBC Big 

Band, the Humphrey Lyttelton Band and the Alan Barnes’ Octet. Robert 

has also put together an all star big band, in tribute to Gerry Mulligan’s 

Concert Jazz Band: a 13 piece group which included some of the country’s 

finest musicians. He currently leads his own Quartet and Quintet and 

continues to be a welcome addition to many of the UK’s jazz festivals.  

Robert has released 2 CDs under his own name: Tight Lines and Flow.