Sauce Pocket’s debut will have vocals on it, but for now it’s one of the Bay area’s best instrumental bands

Members are split between Tampa Bay and Jacksonville.

By Ray Roa on Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 10:34 pm

Photo via Saucepocket/Facebook

Sauce Pocket, which plays New World Brewery in Tampa, Florida on Aug. 17, 2024.

Split between Tampa Bay and Jacksonville, members of fusion outfit Sauce Pocket have a new album out (Noodle Brain), but it’s best to get wet with a 2024 live album, Electric Boogaloo.

The offering is a true representation of of how the sextet seamlessly blends its love for bands like Parliament, Lettuce, Hiatus Kaiyote, Chick Corea and even Tito Puente into songs that have a thematic home, but beg to be busted open for minutes of improvisation.

Drummer Riley O’Brien told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that Sauce Pocket is adding vocals from renowned Colorado soul singer Jessica Jones on its full-length debut, so shows like the band’s headlining gig on Aug. 17 in Tampa is probably the last chance to see this iteration of the sauciers.

Tickets to see Sauce Pocket play the music hall at Tampa's New World Brewery on Saturday, Aug. 17 are still available for $10. See a list of the best Tampa Bay instrumental bands you can listen to right now.

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Ray Roa

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...

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