Jim Fox (born 1953 in
Indiana
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) is an American
composer
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, and also founder and director of the recording label Cold Blue.
His compositions, often for small and unusual instrumentations (e.g., ''The City the Wind Swept Away'' is scored for
piano
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, solo
strings
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*String (structure), a long flexible structure made from threads twisted together, which is used to tie, bind, or hang other objects
Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* ''Strings'' (1991 film), a Canadian anim ...
, two
trombones
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and two
bass trombone
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s), are slow, creating tension and interest through unpredictable change within a generally repetitive idiom. Fox studied composition with
Phil Winsor at
DePaul University
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, Chicago. He also studied composition as a postgraduate with
Barney Childs
Barney Sanford Childs (February 13, 1926 – January 11, 2000) was an American composer and teacher.
Born in Spokane, Washington, he taught and composed avant-garde music and literature at universities in the United States and United Kingdom.
M ...
and taught electronic music, orchestration, and acoustics at the
University of Redlands
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.
Recorded Compositions
*''Colorless sky became fog'' (Cold Blue CB0036)
*''The pleasure of being lost'' (Innova 846)
*''Descansos, past'' (Cold Blue CB0021)
*''The City the Wind Swept Away'' (Cold Blue CB0015)
*''Between the Wheels'' (Cold Blue CB0009)
*''Appearance of Red'' (Cold Blue CB0008)
*''Among Simple Shadows'' (Cold Blue CB0005)
*''All Fall Down'' (CRI 866)
*''The Copy of the Drawing'' (Cold Blue CB0001)
*''Last Things'' (Cold Blue CB0001)
*''Ballad of a Gunfighter'' (filmscore) (Citadel STC 77119)
*''Between the Wheels'' (Raptoria Caam RCD 1001)
*''Solo for Single Reed Instrument'' (Advance Recordings FGR-13)
See also
*
List of ambient music artists
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References
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Living people
American male composers
21st-century American composers
1953 births
21st-century American male musicians