The Greg Foat Group

The Greg Foat Group’s exhilarating undertake modern jazz includes bold experimentation, adventurous instrumentation, and analog recording right into a sound informed as very much by soundtracks and collection music as by modal and soul-jazz. Shaped in ’09 2009 and led by pianist/composer/arranger/DJ Foat, the GFG contains best sessionmen Rob Mach (saxophone), Trevor Walker (trumpet/flügelhorn), Tony Coote (drums), Jacob Ohvall (bass), Henric Strall (classical guitar), Phil Achille (dual bass), and Marius Ptas (acoustic guitar). The band’s 2011 debut long-player Dark May be the Sunlight — issued around the famous Jazzman label — was an idea album documented in Sweden that recalled the vibrancy from the English modern jazz picture of the past due ’60s and early ’70s. This is accompanied by the spacy, Moog-laden, Sci-Fi-themed Lady and Automatic robot with Plants in 2012, before a residency in the Playboy Golf club in Mayfair, London led to an exciting live recording released in 2014. On the other hand, the following 12 months the band documented the greater ambient and pastoral The Dancers at the Advantage of Amount of time in a chapel near Foat’s hometown of Ventnor, Isle of Wight, UK. This documenting presented a string quartet and woodwinds, using the chapel organ itself acquiring middle stage in the proceedings. 2016’s Cityscapes/Scenery returned towards the past due-’60s Brit jazz/jazz-rock sound, using the previous being created during Foat’s stint like a DJ in Stockholm as well as the latter back the rural Isle of Wight; the recording signifies a lucid musical trip between your two contrasting conditions.