Boston based multi-instrumentalist Dan Fox has performed throughout the US, Europe and Japan including performances at the Newport, Monterey, and Boston Globe Jazz Festivals, as well as the 2004 Gezmetaz Jazz Festival in Genoa, Italy. Primarily performing on trombone and electric bass, Dan also plays trumpet, tuba, conch shells, and drums.

Fox is a co-founder of all the Made in the Shade Music groups: Made in the Shade, The Sticky Skillet Swing Orchestra, The Royal Island Players, and Holiday Brass Quartet. Other performances include concerts with Ben Monder, Herb Pomeroy, John Tchicai, Matthew Garrison, Lou Colombo/ Dick Johnson Group, Greg Hopkins 16 Piece, Fully Celebrated Orchestra, Ben Swift Band, Gene Krupa Orchestra, Felicia Brady, and The Either/Orchestra. Fox has also played in big bands backing jazz legends Louis Bellson, Paquito D’Rivera, and Clark Terry.

As a jazz educator he led workshops in improvisation and taught ensembles at the Gezmaetaz Festival in Genoa, Italy. Fox has also given clinics at Berklee College of Music, Cleveland State University, Interlochen School for the Arts, University of Iowa, and Lawrence University. Fox currently teaches private students in Lexington,MA and directs the jazz band at St. Mark’s High School in Southboro, MA.

RECORDINGS
With Either/Orchestra: The Brunt (1994), Across the Omniverse (1996)
With Made in the Shade: Made in the Shade (1995), Passing the Hat (1997), Clarinet Marmalade (2003)
With Matt Gordy Group: Almost Spring (1995)
With Ben Swift Band: Chimpanzee (1999), Cud (2000) Live at Unity College (2000), Aware 6 (1999 distributed by Columbia), Deep South (1999), Vineyard Sounds (1998);
With Felicia Brady: Hold On (2003),
With Redtime: Redtime (1997).
With Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem: Cocktail Swing (2001)

SOUNDS:
Dan Fox Quintet
Featuring: Dan Fox - trombone; Greg Hopkins - trumpet; Barry Smith - bass; Jamie Stewardson - guitar; Barry Reis - drums

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