# Stan Greig

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**Stanley Mackay Greig** (12 August 1930 – 18 November 2012)[1] was a Scottish pianist, drummer, and bandleader.

Geig was born in [Joppa, Edinburgh](/source/Joppa,_Edinburgh), Scotland.[1] Greig's father was a drummer and piano tuner. Greig played with [Sandy Brown](/source/Sandy_Brown_(musician)) while still in high school in 1945, then played piano and drums with him from 1948 to 1954.[2] He moved to London and played the drums with [Ken Colyer](/source/Ken_Colyer) (1954–55), [Humphrey Lyttelton](/source/Humphrey_Lyttelton) (1955–57), and [Bruce Turner](/source/Bruce_Turner) (1957), then with the Fairweather-Brown All-Stars (led by Brown and [Al Fairweather](/source/Al_Fairweather)) in 1958-59.[2] He played with Turner again briefly before becoming a member of [Acker Bilk](/source/Acker_Bilk)'s Paramount Jazz Band from 1960 to 1968.

After 1969 Greig made piano his primary instrument, leading his own small groups and playing [boogie woogie](/source/Boogie_woogie) and [blues](/source/Blues) piano.[2] He played with [Dave Shepherd](/source/Dave_Shepherd) and [Johnny Hawksworth](/source/Johnny_Hawksworth) as a sideman in the early 1970s, then formed the London Jazz Big Band in 1975.[2] From 1977-80 he played with [George Melly](/source/George_Melly), then toured as a bandleader in Europe (1980–82). He worked again with Lyttelton from 1985 to 1995, and worked with [Wally Fawkes](/source/Wally_Fawkes) later in the 1990s. The Stan Greig Trio played many gigs in and around London, with [the Rolling Stones](/source/The_Rolling_Stones)'s [Charlie Watts](/source/Charlie_Watts) sometimes turning out on drums.

Greig died on 18 November 2012, in [London](/source/London), England, after suffering from [Parkinson's disease](/source/Parkinson's_disease).[1]

## References

1. Peter Vacher (November 23, 2012). ["Stan Greig obituary | Music"](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/nov/23/stan-greig). *[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)*. Retrieved 2012-11-24.

1. [Colin Larkin](/source/Colin_Larkin_(writer)) (ed.) (1995). *[The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz](/source/Encyclopedia_of_Popular_Music)*. Second ed. [Guinness Publishing](/source/Guinness_Publishing). pp. 200/1. ISBN 0-85112-674-X.

## Other sources

- Fairweather/Kernfeld, "Stan Greig". *[Grove Jazz](/source/The_New_Grove)* online.

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