The phrase ‘jazz royalty’ is much misused, but not this time!  Crail arts Festival is more than excited to offer a very rare appearance by the Phil Bancroft Trio - Phil on tenor sax, twin brother Tom on drums and Mario Caribe on double bass.  Plus, we have a very special surprise guest playing, none other than trumpet giant Byron Wallen.

Phil is one of the greatest, if not the greatest tenor player Scotland has ever produced. 

Tom and Phil studied medicine at Cambridge, both qualifying as doctors and entering practice in the early 1990s; however, the magnetic and irresistible lure of jazz pulled them from the medical path towards lives offered up to the services of music.

They have been mainstays and educators in the world of Scottish music for as long as we can remember, animating and breathing life into the art form, as much part of the…