Jim Fox is an American composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

, 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

Piano

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, solo strings

String instrument

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, two trombones and two bass trombones), are slow, creating tension and interest through unpredictable change within a generally repetitive idiom. Fox studied composition with Phil Winsor at DePaul University

DePaul University

DePaul University is a private institution of higher education and research in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by the Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th century French priest Saint Vincent de Paul...

, Chicago. He also studied composition as a postgraduate with Barney Childs

Barney Childs

Barney Childs 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.-Music:...

 and taught electronic music, orchestration, and acoustics at the University of Redlands

University of Redlands

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Recorded Compositions

• 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)