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Billy Fox

Mostly doing photography and screenwriting these days, but feel free to enjoy my records!

Billy Fox's Backbirds & Bullets: Dulces

by Jack Huntley
September 27, 2011

In the liner notes for Dulces, Billy Fox outlines the influence that Bengali writer, artist and composer Rabindranath Tagore had on his own compositional insights, writing “Tagore boldly defied the expectations of each idiom." And after listening to Dulces, it is apparent that Fox learned well. Like his mentor, Fox is able to use various musical ...

Dulces

By Billy Fox

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Girl Cheese sandwich; Go Pocket Pickles!; Deva Dasi; Tatsin; Elisha & the She Bears; E Ki E Sundaro Shobha.

Kaidan Suite

By Billy Fox

Label: Gozen Reiji Records
Released: 2008

Billy Fox: Kaidan Suite

by Budd Kopman
July 23, 2008

Billy Fox is primarily a composer, although he does play various percussion instruments on both his fine previous release The Uncle Wiggly Suite (Clean Feed, 2007) and Kaidan Suite. He approaches composition eclectically, but there is a decided classical undertone. Note that both recordings are suites, and thus are integrated works, meant to be listened to ...

The Uncle Wiggly Suite

By Billy Fox

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Uncle Wiggly; D-D-Dribble; Guzzle; Nasturtium; Eyeball Eyeball; The Ghost of Col. Cobb; Do the Wiggle; Stories; Kooky Spooks; Nighty Night.

Jazzanese: Kitsune & Kioku

by Celeste Sunderland
December 8, 2007

Billy Fox Kitsune Ensemble Kaidan Suite Gozen Reiji Records 2007 Kioku Both Far and Near Quiet Design 2007 Two recent albums combine American and Japanese mentalities. Billy ...

Billy Fox: The Uncle Wiggly Suite

by Budd Kopman
June 9, 2007

In the notes to The Uncle Wiggly Suite, composer Billy Fox tells the story of the genesis of the thematic kernel that makes up the connecting thread that runs through the pieces in this suite. This fine music lives in cracks between many things: composition vs. improvisation, accessibility vs. pure expression, mainstream vs. avant-garde, consciousness vs. ...

Take Five With Billy Fox

by AAJ Staff
April 16, 2007

Meet Billy Fox: Originally trained as a drummer and Latin percussionist, my focus today is composing. My music interweaves composition and improvisation, and draws from a variety of styles: modal and free jazz; Western classical; and Japanese tonal systems.Instrument(s): Composition.Teachers and/or influences? My primary influence as a composer has been Jane Ira ...

Billy Fox: The Uncle Wiggly Suite

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 5, 2007

«It began with a dream» racconta il percussionista-compositore Billy Fox nelle note che accompagnano questo sorprendente esordio targato, ancora una volta, Clean Feed. Un sogno intravisto e catturato in quegli attimi senza tempo che separano il sonno dalla veglia, la coscienza dall’incoscienza. È in una zona non meglio precisata di quel confine assai labile che sono ...