Admission is free, and the public is invited.
The performance will end a national tour that took Fox as far afield as Washington, Oregon, California, and Arizona.
In
his career, the inventive keyboardist-composer has created a
distinctive and appealing musical personality along with more than his
share of memorable music. He is easily recognizable whether playing
modern mainstream jazz, avant-garde explorations, rock or original
classical pieces. Fox has recorded a series of colorful and stimulating
CDs that seem destined to make him well known throughout the United
States as a creative musical force.
Since
2004, Fox has released a series of critically-acclaimed recordings in
the jazz world, including Gatewalk (Assembled Sound), If These Songs
Could Talk (BigDogApplewood Records), and Home Again, featuring Bruce
Eisenbeil (Konnex). He has also recorded with the saxophonist Frank
Gratkowski and the improvising Wildman himself, Eugene Chadbourne.
Two
years ago he released an album that has perhaps gained him the most
notoriety thus far. Farewell Arigemon, by the Fox-led Meldavians, was
made with friends Melissa Reaves and Scott Sawyer and has established
him as a production force of creative quality. Named after a mythical
country from another planet, the Meldavians have become popular in North
Carolina, with the pianist billing himself as "Dr. Drave."
As
a songwriter during 2012-13 his originals "A Lot Less Philosophy" and
"Seventeenth Day" were semi-finalists in the Song Of The Year contest
while his "Meldavian Dream" was a runner-up.
Fox
holds B.M. and M.M. degrees from the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro and an Ed.D. from Columbia University. He joined the
Greensboro College faculty in 1990.
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