Jazz Articles about Mimi Fox

Mimi Fox: Perpetually Hip

by Jim Santella
January 18, 2006

While the title track for Perpetually Hip was written for a friend, it also describes the composer, Mimi Fox, who wrote three of the songs that she interprets on this two-disc set. She works with her New York band on disc one, giving a standout performance that has everyone working cohesively and soloing with spontaneity. Straight-ahead jazz is certainly her forte.

When working with her quartet, Fox creates airs on her guitar that are as lovely as Diana ...

Mimi Fox: Getting Her Due

by Forrest Dylan Bryant
January 5, 2005

Mimi Fox is slowly but surely beginning to get her due. Named a “rising star" in the DownBeat magazine critics' poll in 2003 and again in 2004, signed to a growing young label (Favored Nations), and with a discography that's up to seven discs under her own name (alongside dozens of side gigs), Fox's fluid guitar chops are finally beginning to reach a wide audience.

Mimi Fox: She's the Woman

by John Kelman
March 22, 2004

Why there are so few woman instrumentalists in jazz is a mystery. While there have been a few, like Mary Lou Williams, who have earned a solid place in the music's history, jazz remains a genre dominated mainly by men. Cut to San Francisco Bay Area guitarist Mimi Fox, who, with a strong post-bop style that bridges the gap between traditional and modern styles, will hopefully gain the recognition she deserves. After a series of recordings on smaller independent labels, ...

Mimi Fox: She's the Woman

by Javier AQ Ortiz
February 3, 2004

One of Camille Paglia's counter-arguments against the claims of certain particularly misleading types of feminism is that there are no notable female rock guitarists. In jazz, however, Mimi Fox could give Paglia a run for her money as she can...and already has...played ball in several jazz leagues. In her latest release, some of her fare, such as “Denny's Tune, shouldn't be excluded even from the smoother hinterlands of jazz. Its steeled drummed enhancements frame a guitarist and an ensemble of ...

Mimi Fox: Kicks

by C. Michael Bailey
November 1, 1999

Righteous Chops!. I can think of three major female guitarists: Leni Stern, Emily Remler, and Mimi Fox. Fox turns out to be the least know, making her a very well-kept secret. When I first listened to Kick, I heard a Joe Pass speed and precision with a Wes Montgomery round tone. Fox opens her disc with the venerable “Cherokee”, the song that began the Be Bop revolution with Charlie Parker. Ther is no slow burn here. She follows this war-horse ...

Mimi Fox: Kicks

by Douglas Payne
September 1, 1999

Unfortunately, Mimi Fox is one of only a few female guitarists in jazz. Only Leni Stern and the late, lamented Emily Remler seem to have broken through that male-dominated stranglehold. But Kicks, Fox's latest disc and her third as a leader, places the guitarist in star-studded company to firmly announce that, yes, she too can play - and hold her own -- with the big boys.Fox is an especially good player, giving Kicks an appeal that you'll want ...

Mimi Fox: Kicks

by Ed Kopp
May 1, 1999

Not many string-benders are as talented as Mimi Fox, a San Francisco-based musician with a strong sense of swing and a clean, economical style.A former student of Bruce Forman's, Fox shares more qualities with her bop-minded mentor than with the majority of male jazz guitarists in her age group who have adopted a more electronically processed, rock-influenced sound. Kicks is Fox's second release, and it features a strong supporting cast, including Russell Ferrante (keys) and Will ...