Roy Percy
As well as touring UK and European Festivals, Roy has been a frequent transatlantic visitor appearing at the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, L.A.’s Sweet and Hot Festival, and Canada’s Victoria Jazz Festival. Nearer home, he has backed many visiting American jazz musicians at the Edinburgh International Jazz Festival including Duke Heitger, Evan Christopher and Marty Grosz. He has been the bassist in the Tim Kliphuis Trio for 17 years; his specialty is the rarely heard ‘slap’ technique, but Roy says that his main criteria in any performance is to “Keep things swinging and drive the rhythm along”.