Mo Foster

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Mo Foster is a highly respected British session musician, playing primarily jazz and rock bass guitar. He is also an in-demand and highly-regarded music producer, songwriter and author.

Mo Foster studied physics and maths at the University of Sussex in the mid-1960's. During his student days he played both drums and bass in a wide variety of bands. After his graduation he formed a progressive jazz/rock group Affinity, managed by the late Ronnie Scott. From that time on his career as a top session musician, record producer, composer, author, and solo artist developed.

As a studio session musician, he has played on over 350 albums - and many singles - by artists as varied as: Phil Collins, Jeff Beck, Gerry Rafferty, Ringo Starr, Frida (of ABBA), Gary Moore, Cher, Peter Green, Jose Carreras, Elkie Brooks, Michael Schenker Group, Olivia Newton-John, Neil Innes, Judie Tzuke, Sheena Easton, Meatloaf, Andrew Lloyd-Webber & Tim Rice, Luka Bloom, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and The London Symphony Orchestra to name a few and numerous more.

During his session career he has worked at studios around the world, in the UK, USA, Germany, Canada, Caribbean, France, Italy, and Japan. He has also played on several major world tours, most notably with Jeff Beck and Phil Collins.

In the mid to late 80's Mo formed a third of a jazz/rock band called RMS with fellow session musos, Ray Russell and Toto's Simon Phillips. They released (originally on Peter Van Hooke's then at the time new MMC record label) an album called Centennial Park which was remastered and re-released in 2002 on the Angel Air record label. This in turn prompted the release of a live album from 1982 that had never been heard publically before. RMS: Live at the Venue, 1982.

As a result of the success of these two CD releases, a DVD (which featured a guest appearance by Gil Evans) was released a year later. RMS: Live At The Montreux Jazz Festival, 1983. Both the CDs and DVD were produced by Mo.

Additionally he has released four solo albums, Bel Assis (featuring Gary Moore), Southern Reunion (featuring Gary Moore and Snail's Pace Slim of The Hamsters), Time To Think and Blues At West 14

Most recently he has worked as an interviewer on the recent UK Channel 4 series Live From Abbey Road ^[1], which involved interviewing musicians and bands who were performing live sets at EMI's world-famous Abbey Road Studios.

He currently lives with his film producer wife, Kay, in North London.