RMS is a jazz fusion

Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...

 band formed in 1982. It consists of three well known and acclaimed British session musician

Session musician

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s. Guitarist, Ray Russell

Ray Russell (musician)

Raymond 'Ray' Russell is an English session musician who is primarily a guitarist. He is also renowned as a record producer, composer and session musician....

, bass player, Mo Foster

Mo Foster

Mo Foster is a British session musician, playing primarily jazz, jazz-fusion and rock bass guitar. He is also a music producer and songwriter/composer. In over 40 years as a musician Foster has played on and produced countless albums, singles, and film soundtracks...

 and drummer Simon Phillips

Simon Phillips

Simon Phillips is an English jazz, pop and rock drummer.-Career:Phillips began to play professionally at the age of twelve in his father's Dixieland band for four years. He was then offered the chance to play in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar...

.

As of mid-2007 RMS have started touring the UK. Due to his commitments with Toto

Toto (band)

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, Simon Phillips

Simon Phillips

Simon Phillips is an English jazz, pop and rock drummer.-Career:Phillips began to play professionally at the age of twelve in his father's Dixieland band for four years. He was then offered the chance to play in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar...

 has been replaced with Gary Husband

Gary Husband

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. They have performed a few small shows in the south of England with further shows planned throughout the UK in 2008.

Discography

• Centennial Park (1984, 2004)
• RMS Live at the Venue 1982 (2005)
• RMS Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1983 (with Gil Evans
  Gil Evans
  Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader, active in the United States...
  
  ) (DVD, 2006)