BANDLEADER AND DRUMMER ROY PFEFFER IS ONE OF LONDON’S MOST RECOGNISED AMBASSADORS OF NEW ORLEANS MUSIC. HE LEADS ACCLAIMED NEW ORLEANS FUNK BAND THE BIG SMOKE FAMILY – REGULARS AT LONDON’S RONNIE SCOTT’S, PIZZA EXPRESS SOHO AND FAVOURITES ON NEW ORLEANS BIGGEST RADIO STATION WWOZ.

ROY IS ALSO A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE COSIMO MATASSA PROJECT – A BAND DEDICATED TO 1950 NEW ORLEANS RHYTHM ’N’ BLUES AND PLAYING MUSIC BY ARTISTS SUCH AS FATS DOMINO, SMILY LEWIS AND DR JOHN. HIS OWN TRIO PLAYS A SOULFUL MIX OF NEW ORLEANS JAZZ, MARDI GRAS AND FUNK WITH REPERTOIRE FROM GRANT GREEN, HORACE SILVER, IDRIS MUHAMMAD AND MANY MORE.

“THIS BAND IS THE BOMB”

~ BOOKER T JONES

“KEEPING FUNK ALIVE”

~ GALACTIC NEW ORLEANS

“NOLA-TASTIC”

~ THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS

“ALWAYS BRILLIANT”

~ RONNIE SCOTT’S JAZZ CLUB