Mimi Fox
Mimi Fox ( born August 24, 1956 in Queens, New York City ) is an American Jazzgitarristin and music teacher.
Life and work
Fox's father was an amateur drummer and Dixieland fan, her mother a professional singer. At age nine, she played in the school band percussion, with ten years she switched to guitar, initially oriented to Funk, R & B and Top 40 music. At 14, Fox discovered on the album Giant Steps, the music of John Coltrane and began to increase its interest in jazz music. In 1979, she moved to San Francisco and took lessons with Bruce Forman, who was able to convince her to become a professional musician. Since then, she played among others with the guitarist Charlie Byrd, Stanley Jordan, Charlie Hunter, and Mundell Lowe, also with Branford Marsalis, David Sanchez, Houston Person, Abbey Lincoln, Diana Krall, Kevin Mahogany, Janis Siegel, Joey DeFrancesco, Barbara Dennerlein, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Terri Lyne Carrington, as well as with Stevie Wonder and John Sebastian. She played at numerous jazz festivals on the West Coast and in the Caribbean and also toured in Japan, Thailand and Australia. They also took on with Don Lanphere, Robin Flower, Silvia Kohan and Maye Cavallaro.
In 1987, her debut album, Against the Grain. The album kicks reached the Billboard jazz charts 20th place
Fox teaches at the Jazz School in Berkeley and adjunct professor at New York University. She also wrote a guitar textbook and created a CD -ROM-based course ( Jazz Anatomy ).
Prizes and awards
Since 2003 was won three times in succession the Kritikerpoll the downbeat.
Publications
Textbooks
- Graduated Soloing Book / CD Set Mel Bay Publications, 2010. ISBN 0-7866-8138-1
- Guitar Arpeggio studies on jazz standards ( CD) Mel Bay Publications, ISBN 0-7866-7199-8