Phil Bancroft

b. 29 January 1967, London, Britain. Bancroft was created right into a musical family members environment that shifted to Scotland when he was nine years of age. Playing saxophone, he became a member of a trio led by his pianist dad and finished by twin sibling Tom Bancroft on drums. During his 1st outings as sideman and innovator, tenor saxophonist Bancroft was occasionally noticed in the interesting mixture of jazz and modern Scottish folk music that therefore enlivened the united kingdom jazz scene through the middle-90s onwards. Among music artists with whom Bancroft spent some time working are guitarist Mike Walker, bass players Reid Anderson and Steve W, and drummers Thomas Strønen, Marcello Pellitteri and John Rae. Using the second option he was a creator member and musical movie director from the John Rae Collective and in addition became a member of him in Celtic Feet, along with Brian Kellock, bass participant Mario Caribé, concertina participant Simon Thoumire and violinist Eilidh Shaw. Bancroft also used Sunlight Ra, Tommy Smith, and Kenny Wheeler. In 1994, the Bancroft brothers and guitarist Kevin Mackenzie shaped Trio AAB, an organization that toured and documented the albums Cool Fusion and Wherever I Place My House That’s My Hat attaining considerable essential and popular achievement. For his or her third saving, Stranger Items Happen At C, the group added flautist Brian Finnegan and shown that particular vein of musical idea remains wealthy. By the first 00s, Bancroft got proved himself to become probably one of the most imaginative music artists in the united kingdom so when he shifted into a even more impressionistic mode along with his second solo documenting, Headlong (2004), he once again attracted rave evaluations.