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At ten, Mimi Fox got her first guitar. As she told JazzGuitarLife.com, her family knew pretty quickly it was a keeper because she'd fall asleep at night clutching it, and her brother and sister would call out, "Mommy, shes sleeping with her guitar again." Now this acclaimed guitarist-composer-recording artist brings her ongoing love of the guitar and jazz to Wilton Library on March 5, in a "Jazz at Brubeck" concert at 7:30 p.m. Hailed by Guitar Player Magazine as "a prodigious talent who has not only mastered the traditional forms but has managed to reinvigorate them," Fox grew up always hearing music. Filling the house were her parents' old Dixieland records or recordings of Ella Fitzgerald or Louis Armstrong, "Just a ton of stuff," including her siblings' pop music. In high school, Fox experimented, playing in different bands, including funk, blues and folk. Largely self-taught then, because her parents couldn't afford music lessons, at school she learned to play drums, another instrument she has an affinity for. Becoming a drummer has also informed her guitar work, she says.
"I feel very lucky to have had that and I still own a kit that I play," she explained to JazzGuitarLife.com. "In fact, I have been told by many great drummers that they dig playing with me because my playing is very hip rhythmically, and that of course means the world to me. I do things a little differently than some players sometimes, you know, they will think Im going to play in one direction but Ill deliberately turn it around into something a little different, and thats partly from playing drums."
See this inventive musican, whom Downbeat called, "Confident, daring and technically brilliant," when Mimi Fox performs at the Wilton Library. A reception follows. A donation of $10 is requested and reservations are "strongly suggested" and can be made on the Library's website. u A know, I feel very lucky to have had that and I still own a kit that I play. In fact I have been told by many great drummers that they dig playing with me because my playing is very hip rhythmically, and that of course means the world to me. I do things a little differently than some players sometimes, you know, they will think Im going to play in one direction but Ill deliberately turn it around into something a little different, and thats partly from playing drums. they will think Im going to play in one direction but Ill deliberately turn it around into something a little different, and thats partly from playing drums.
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