Jim Fox (composer)


Jim Fox is an American composer, and also founder, director, producer, and designer of the "small but influential" recording label Cold Blue Music.
His compositions, often for small and unusual instrumentations, are slow, creating tension and interest through unpredictable change within a generally repetitive idiom. Fox studied composition with Phil Winsor at DePaul University, Chicago. He also studied composition as a postgraduate with Barney Childs and taught electronic music, orchestration, and acoustics at the University of Redlands. Along with Childs and Elliott Schwartz, Fox is a co-editor of the 1998 expanded edition of the anthology Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music, published by Da Capo Press.
Fox’s Cold Blue Music label, from the early 1980s through the present, has championed the works of many composers, often those with West Coast connections of one sort or another, especially the work of John Luther Adams, Peter Garland, Daniel Lentz, Chas Smith, Michael Byron, Michael Jon Fink, and Rick Cox.
Some interviews with Jim Fox:
Textura, June 2021. “Five Questions with Jim Fox” by Ron Schepper
Kathodik, December 16, 2022, “Interview with Jim Fox, CEO of American Record Label Cold Blue Music” by Marco Paolucci.
New Classic LA, April 30, 2018. “An Interview with Jim Fox of Cold Blue Music” by Cristina Lord.
Mark Alburger: “Foxy Composer-Producer, ” 21st-Century Music, vol.12/1, 1–5
Barney Childs: “Interview with Jim Fox,” Perspectives of New Music, vol.24/2, 236–40

Recorded Compositions

Source:
  • Colorless sky became fog
  • The pleasure of being lost
  • Descansos, past
  • The City the Wind Swept Away
  • Between the Wheels
  • Appearance of Red
  • Among Simple Shadows
  • All Fall Down
  • The Copy of the Drawing
  • Last Things
  • Ballad of a Gunfighter
  • Between the Wheels
  • ''Solo for Single Reed Instrument''