Results for "Mimi Fox"

Rob McConnell: Boss of Bosses

by Jack Bowers
June 3, 2010

Even though largely unknown to most of us south of the border, a number of world-class big bands have made their home in Canada over the years. For nearly three decades, however, there was one whose name and influence rose conspicuously above the others. That band was, of course, the incomparable Boss Brass, and the reason ...

Take Five With Alison Cecile Johns

by AAJ Staff
May 27, 2010

Meet Alison Cecile Johns: Alison Cecile Johns is a vocalist and composer with one eye on the world of jazz, rock and '70s R&B, and the other on an open sky of world music and electronica. Legendary composer Pauline Oliveros praised her “spiritual voice," and she has worked with composers as diverse as Sebastian Robin Craig, ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Mimi Fox

August 24, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Mimi Fox's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Mimi FoxMimi Fox is at the peak of her career. Named “Rising Star" in DownBeat\'s 2003 Critics Poll, she is also profiled in that magazine\'s special feature, “66 Hot 6-Stringers: DownBeat\'s Look at the Guitarists ...

When The Saints Go Marching

Featuring the music of Mimi Fox
Duration: 7:35
February 6, 2007

Perpetually Hip

By Mimi Fox

Label: Favored Nations Cool
Released: 2006
Track listing: CD1 (with band): Perpetually Hip; The Song is You; But Beautiful; Saluting the Groove; Night and Day; While Bangkok Sleeps; So Many Stars. CD2 (solo guitar): Caravan; Polkadots and Moonbeams; On Green Dolphin Street; Alone Together; Medley: Someone to Watch Over Me / Skylark; When the Saints Go Marching In.

Mimi Fox: Perpetually Hip

by Edward Zucker
May 22, 2006

Recently having heard and been impressed by Mimi Fox's performance on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, I was looking forward to hearing the guitarist's most recent CD, Perpetually Hip. The double-disc release is actually two separate albums. The first features Fox with the excellent rhythm section of pianist Xavier Davis, bassist Harvie S. and drummer Billy Hart. ...

Mimi Fox at the Dana Point Community House

by Jim Santella
May 9, 2006

Mimi Fox Solo Guitar Concert Series Dana Point Community House Dana Point, California April 21, 2006 About an hour's drive south of Los Angeles, the quaint beach community of Dana Point sits nestled between rolling hills and coastal bluffs that overlook the harbor. Along with recreational boating, ...

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 ...

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 ...

She's the Woman

By Mimi Fox

Label: Favored Nations
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. East Coast Attitude (M. Fox) 2. Sosua (M. Fox) 3. Buddy's Blues (M. Fox) 4. Angel Eyes (M. Dennis/Dorsey Brothers) 5. Darn That Dream (J. Van Heusen) 6. Raquel, Mi Amor (M. Fox) 7. Denny's Tune (M. Fox) 8. Lullaby of The Leaves (B. Petkere) 9. On The Sunny Side of The Street (J. McHugh, Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. Inc.) 10. She's a Woman (J. Lennon & P. McCartney)