MIMI FOX: KICKS

MIMI FOX
Como se dizia lá no Beco das Garrafas: "essa menina toca feito homem..." e ISSO DIZ TUDO !
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MIMI FOX
Mimi Fox has been recognized by international critic's polls, writers and colleagues alike as one of the most eloquent jazz guitarists on today's scene. In one of many feature stories, Guitar Player Magazine hailed Mimi as "a prodigious talent who has not only mastered the traditional forms but has managed to reinvigorate them."
Mimi has performed with fellow guitarists Charlie Byrd, Stanley Jordan, Charlie Hunter, and Mundell Lowe, Branford Marsalis, David Sanchez and Houston Person and the late Don Lanphere, vocalists Abbey Lincoln, Diana Krall, Kevin Mahogany and Janis Siegel (Manhattan Transfer), among som many other. Fox had already established her credentials as a worthy successor to Joe Pass with the astonishing 2001 Origin Records solo album, Standards. Fox introduced herself to the international jazz scene in the 1990s with a pair of CDs on Monarch Records including Kicks, a high energy project pairing her with collaborators such as Joey DeFrancesco and Yellowjackets Russell Ferrante and Will Kenney. Allaboutjazz.com awarded the album a superlative four star rating: "This is a strongly melodic collection and one that swings out stylishly. Mimi Fox is a major talent." As a composer, Mimi has written and performed original scores for orchestras, documentary films and dance projects. As a devoted educator and clinician, Mimi has taught master classes worldwide while serving as head of the guitar program at the Jazz School in Berkeley and Adjunct Professor at New York University. She has published several popular instructional
books and interactive CD-Roms for Mel Bay Publications and True Fire. Born in New York City, Fox started playing drums at nine and guitar when she was ten. When she was fourteen, she bought her first jazz album. That album, John Coltrane's classic
Giant Steps, changed the course of her musical life. Whether delivering jaw-dropping solo sets, performing dazzling duets with sympathetic partners, or leading a hard-charging combo, Mimi is a consummate improviser who seizes the imagination of her listeners with her passion, soul, and unerring ear for beauty.
(Source: Mimi Fox website, edited by CB)
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MINHA OPINIÃO: MIMI FOX é uma guitarrista completa, que domina TODOS os idiomas, licks, acordes, escalas de qualquer tipo de música: jazz straight-ahead, bossa-nova, blues, pop, enfim - sabe TUDO. Cercada por um "dream team", Mimi arrasa logo na largada com "Cherokee" e segue em frente, esbanjando classe e elegância - independentemente da "praia" onde está nadadando... UMA SENHORA GUITARRISTA, enfeitada por um COLAR DE BRILHANTES...
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MIMI FOX: KICKS

PERSONNEL:
Mimi Fox: electric and acoustic guitar
Russell Ferrante: piano
Joey DeFrancesco: organ
Charlie Hunter: guitar
John Wiitala, Mark VanWageningen: bass
Will Kennedy: drums
Angel Bofill: vocal on "Born To Be Blue"
Marquinho Brasil: percussion.

TRACKS/FAIXAS:
01 Cherokee
02 Loves Me Like A Rock
03 Poor Wayfarin' Stranger
04 Born To Be Blue
05 In A Sentimental Mood
06 A Nightingale Sang In Berkley Square
07 Kicks
08 Willow Weep For Me
09 Vita's Lullaby
10 Mr. White's Blues.