Family Groove Company is an unsigned American four piece jam band[1] based out of Chicago, Illinois.
Family Groove Company (FGC) started out in January 2001 when Adam Lewis (guitar) and Jordan Wilkow (keyboards) met Janis Wallin (bass) and Mattias Blanck (drums) while studying music at the Musician's Institute in Los Angeles, California.
[2] With the number of markets available to the band limited by the vast expanse of the American west, in the fall of 2002, FGC made the decision to relocate to Chicago, Illinois.
FGC has avoided the jam band formula of the hip-hop/funk/rock groove combined with endless guitar solos.
FGC feels that compositional coherence and ingenuity are every bit as important as the "jam" that has come to be the namesake of their genre.