Soul Eyes
Featuring:
Mimi Fox—Guitar
Bruce Arnold—Guitar
When Bruce Arnold devised the NYU Summer Guitar Intensive
Clinic, he put together an Olympian team of teachers--great guitarists
from around the world who would converge on the University for three
weeks and give the students a summer course to remember, and a
springboard to their musical future. Among the guitarists he invited to
participate, he was especially curious about one, Mimi Fox.
Mimi Fox is certainly one of Jazz Guitar's heroes, having been voted a
"Rising Star" in both the 2003 and 2004 Downbeat Magazine critic's
poll. She maintains a hectic schedule, performing as a solo act, or in
infinite combinations, from jazz ensembles to orchestras. She has been
touring since High School (!), and flew in from San Francisco to teach
at the Intensive. (She appears on "Rhapsody" by kind permission of
Steve Vai's record label, "Favored Nations.")
"I had arranged to play sessions with several of the other guitarists
in the course" says Arnold "but I was particularly looking forward to
jamming with Mimi. I had a feeling that I was somehow connected with
her even though I didn't know her and had only communicated through
emails. Her music was completely opposite to my style of writing and
playing so I was intrigued by how our differing approaches might
interact."
Bruce Arnold has made a name for himself through his CDs wherein he has
successfully integrated the 20th century classical constructs of 12
tone music into jazz improvisation. He is also a pioneer of the use of
SuperCollider (an object oriented computer program) in live
performance, and the author of over fifty books of music instruction.
After playing a few sessions together, both Fox and Arnold realized
that there was indeed something special going on, and they decided to
document it on a CD.
"After our first few notes I think we both knew we had a chemistry that
one doesn't often find. Everything I played she spontaneously
complimented and vise versa- it was as if we had been playing together
for many years. As we reviewed each track during playback for the CD we
both felt that we were listening to a pair of musical soul mates having
fun together."
And so the duo "Soul Eyes" was born, and the CD "Rhapsody."
Here are two audio selections from this CD. They are provided here as MP3 files.
Bye Bye Blackbird | Stella By Starlight
Rhapsody—$12.99
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