Herbert is the mighty bass player at the heart of the most exciting new jazz- and groove-based bands in town: the Finn Peters Quintet, Polar Bear, Acoustic Ladyland, Timeline, Meta Meta, Synergy and Jade Fox, whose members have been playing together since they were teenagers. Jade Fox - now working on an album - were the core of the 2004 Future Sounds of Jazz tour, featuring Soweto Kinch, Jason Yarde and Matthew Bourne.