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Artist
Greg Foat
12+ albums
jazznu jazzcontemporary jazzcool jazzambient
about
London-based keyboardist, composer, bandleader, and DJ, Greg Foat is a musician completely of his time and somehow beyond it. His highly original "non-contemporary jazz" utilizes conventional instruments and an exotic array of unorthodox ones, including harpsichord, tubular bells, and a 15-piece choir. Foat's music relies heavily on inspirations from library and soundtrack music, global folk traditions, psychedelia, hymnody, ambient music, and '60s and '70s pop, soul, blues, and more. Whether solo, as co-leader of Hampshire & Foat (with Bees' multi-instrumentalist Warren Hampshire), or leading the Greg Foat Group, he has been quietly and purposefully dissolving artificial boundaries between musical genres and eras since GFG's debut, Dark Is the Sun, in 2011. He's also been prolific, releasing an album a year, including the universally acclaimed 2015 outing Dancers at the Edge of Time and 2017's Galaxies Like Grains of Sand (with Hampshire), as well as a slew of singles and EPs. As a composer he's heavily influenced by the lineage of British jazz pianists and composers including Gordon Beck, Stan Tracey, Michael Garrick, Keith Tippett, and Graham Collier, in addition to European and American composers, arrangers, and soloists including Ennio Morricone, Piero Piccioni, Michel Legrand, Vangelis, and John Klemmer. Foat was born in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. He claims his life-long love/hate relationship with the piano began at age three when he fell off a piano stool at his a
