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Internationally renowned guitarist/composer/recording artist Mimi Fox has been named a winner in 6 consecutive Downbeat Magazine international critic's polls and has been recognized by writers and colleagues alike as one of the most eloquent guitarists on today's scene. In one of many feature stories, Jazz Times hailed Mimi as "a blazing fret master who combines be-bop infused lines with an abundance of soul...spinning solos that unfurl with surprise twists like expertly tailored short stories. " In a further nod to Mimi's guitar artistry, and in conjunction with Heritage Guitars' 30th anniversary, the historic Kalamazoo guitar company has rolled out the Mimi Fox Artist Signature model.

Mimi has performed/recorded with some of the music world's most commanding players, including fellow guitarists Charlie Byrd, Stanley Jordan, and Charlie Hunter, Grammy-nominated saxophonists Branford Marsalis, David Sanchez, Houston Person, and the late Don Lanphere, vocalists Tierney Sutton, Kevin Mahogany, and Janis Siegel (Manhattan Transfer), B3 organ masters Joey DeFrancesco, Barbara Denerlein and Dr. Lonnie Smith, and powerhouse drummers Billy Hart and Terri Lyne Carrington. She has also shared the stage with legends Stevie Wonder, and Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul, and Mary) and toured as a featured artist with Patty Larkin's Vanguard Records-produced La Guitara project. Her YouTube videos have received hundreds of thousands of views.

As a virtuosic improviser who’s collaborated with many of jazz’s greatest figures, Mimi Fox has earned her spot in the jazz guitar pantheon. But the jazz tradition is only one of the powerful currents feeding her music. With her 11th album as a leader or co-leader, This Bird Still Flies, Fox delivers a seamless but far-ranging album that’s breathtaking it its beauty, emotional immediacy and stylistic reach. The all acoustic recording captures a commanding artist in full - transforming folk tunes, jazz standards, original compositions and popular songs into exquisitely crafted improvisational vehicles.

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Album Review

Mimi Fox: One for Wes

Read "One for Wes" reviewed by Jack Bowers


To mark the hundredth anniversary of the great Wes Montgomery's birth in March 1923, guitarist Mimi Fox has recorded One for Wes, an earnest tribute that consists of eight Montgomery-inspired tunes adeptly performed by Fox's San Francisco Bay-area organ trio with Brian Ho on Hammond B3 and Lorca Hart on drums. As one might expect, there is a lot of blues, emotion and reverence in play, none of which detracts from the trio's admirable consonance and artistry. ...

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Radio & Podcasts

New Releases From Mimi Fox and Ed Cherry, Birthday Shoutouts to Dolly Parton, Sade, Cheryl Bentyne And More

Read "New Releases From Mimi Fox and Ed Cherry, Birthday Shoutouts to Dolly Parton, Sade, Cheryl Bentyne And More" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


This broadcast includes new releases from guitarists Mimi Fox and Ed Cherry, drummer Abbie Finn, vocalists Libby York, Paul Carrack, Jose James and Kari Kirkland, with birthday shoutouts to Dolly Parton, Sade, Lizz Wright, Peter Eldridge, Mariah Parker, Cheryl Bentyne and Kate McGarry, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them live and purchasing their music so they can continue to distract, comfort, provoke and inspire.Playlist 3D Jazz Trio “9 to ...

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San Francisco String Trio: May I Introduce To You

Read "May I Introduce To You" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


This year is the 50th anniversary of the release of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, one of the most iconic albums in popular music history, so naturally a lot of musicians are celebrating it. Here the San Francisco String Trio try their hand at interpreting the album in a jazz context.This group is made up of three noted string players, violinist Mads Tolling, guitarist Mimi Fox and bassist Jeff Denson. They have no trouble paring ...

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San Francisco String Trio: May I Introduce To You

Read "May I Introduce To You" reviewed by James Nadal


Fifty years after its release, The Beatles masterpiece, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, has not only seen a resurgence in its popularity, but a slew of inquisitive musicians continue to glean from its creative depths. May I Introduce To You is an intellectual tribute to this iconic album by the San Francisco String Trio, who discovered a treasure trove of material for musical exploration, setting a new standard for jazz interpretation of the Fab Four. The trio ...

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Album Review

Mimi Fox: Standards, Old & New

Read "Standards, Old & New" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Guitarist Mimi Fox's nearly 30-year career has produced several solo standards recitals. Standards, Old & New steps out of the box for some not-so-standard standards from the folk realm (pastoral arrangements of Woody Guthrie's “This Land is Your Land," The Beatles' “She's Leaving Home" and Bob Dylan's “Blowin' In The Wind") and more recent jazz (a marching rendition of pianist Chick Corea's “500 Miles High").Fox received kudos from guitarist Joe Pass before his death and it was certainly ...

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Mimi Fox: Perpetually Hip

Read "Perpetually Hip" reviewed by Edward Zucker


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. This disc features seven tracks, three of which were penned by Fox, including her beautiful original title tune, which features a wonderful solo by ...

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Live Review

Mimi Fox at the Dana Point Community House

Read "Mimi Fox at the Dana Point Community House" reviewed by Jim Santella


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, sport fishing, bicycling, parasailing, surfing and a host of similar leisure activities, the city pays homage to the arts in general--jazz and blues in ...

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Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Mimi Fox

Jazz Musician of the Day: Mimi Fox

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Mimi Fox's birthday today!

Mimi 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 Making Today\'s Scene," which presents “66 guitarists in the worlds of jazz, blues and beyond whose work is innovating, invigorating and perpetuating the guitar tradition... Read more.

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Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Mimi Fox

Jazz Musician of the Day: Mimi Fox

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Mimi Fox's birthday today! Mimi 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 Making Today\'s Scene," which presents “66 guitarists in the worlds of jazz, blues and beyond whose work is innovating, invigorating and perpetuating the guitar tradition... Read more. Place our Musician of the Day widget on your website ...

Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Mimi Fox

Jazz Musician of the Day: Mimi Fox

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Mimi Fox's birthday today! Mimi 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 Making Today\'s Scene," which presents “66 guitarists in the worlds of jazz, blues and beyond whose work is innovating, invigorating and perpetuating the guitar tradition... Read more. Place our Musician of the Day widget on your website ...

Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Mimi Fox

Jazz Musician of the Day: Mimi Fox

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Mimi Fox's birthday today!

Mimi 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 Making Today\'s Scene," which presents “66 guitarists in the worlds of jazz, blues and beyond whose work is innovating, invigorating and perpetuating the guitar tradition... Read more.

Place our Musician of the Day widget on your website ...

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Video / DVD

New DVD: Mimi Fox Live at the Palladium Featuring Akira Tana and Chris Enghauser

New DVD: Mimi Fox Live at the Palladium Featuring Akira Tana and Chris Enghauser

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations

A note from Mimi Fox regarding LIVE AT THE PALLADIUM: This is my ninth project as a leader and I am absolutely thrilled to be presenting this live project as a video. There is something special that happens in a live situation with the audience a part of your every move...exciting! I have to say right off the bat, that my partner in crime Brad Wendkos and the entire crew from TrueFire are really amazing. They made the process of ...

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Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Mimi Fox

Jazz Musician of the Day: Mimi Fox

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Mimi Fox's birthday today!

JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Mimi Fox

Mimi 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 Making Today\'s Scene... more

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Music Industry

New Don Lanphere Recording featuring Mimi Fox, Banrey MacClure & Mel Brown

New Don Lanphere Recording featuring Mimi Fox, Banrey MacClure & Mel Brown

Source: All About Jazz

Northwest saxophonist Don Lanphere has a new recording feature jazz guitar great Mimi Fox, Barney McClure on B3 and Mel Brown on drums. The recording is called Like A Bird and is on Origin Arts. Here is part of the liner notes.

I will admit that when Don initially called me and said “I just did something new for me, a Hammond B-3 organ date, and I really want you to write the liner notes," I kinda froze. When I ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

One for Wes

Origin Records
2023

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Mimi's Mode

Self Produced
2022

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This Bird Still Flies

Origin Records
2019

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May I Introduce To You

Ridgeway Records
2017

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Standards, Old & New

Origin Records
2013

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Perpetually Hip

Favored Nations Cool
2006

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Mr. White's Blues

From: One for Wes
By Mimi Fox

Mimi's Mode (feat. Mimi Fox)

From: Mimi's Mode
By Mimi Fox

Get Away Blues

From: This Bird Still Flies
By Mimi Fox

Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite

From: May I Introduce To You
By Mimi Fox

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