BEN FOX
BASS PLAYER   MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST   HISTORICAL ENTHUSIAST

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This is the Ben Fox-Trot Orchestra album over on Bandcamp

Check out videos on my YouTube channel

I post single tracks on Soundcloud
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Who


I am a bass player and multi-instrumentalist, and I live in New Orleans.
I like old stuff. I play old jazz. I also play lots of other kinds of music, and I like thinking about how things work.

What

I play the upright bass, and timbre and tone are important to me. To that end, depending on the situation, I also play tuba, trombone, trumpet, french horn, euphoniums, cello, violin, guitar, mandolin, banjo, piano, viola da gamba, cornetto, and various folk percussion instruments.

I've played in many of the states in the United States, as well as Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Finland, Estoina, the Canary Islands, and China.

A Word About Bands


About half of my business here in New Orleans comes from being a side man or sub. The other half comes from bands which I lead or am an official member of. At the moment, my projects are:

The Ben Fox-Trot Orchestra - a small big-band style, early swing, dance band (upright bass)
The Ben Fox Blues Edition - bluesy and soulful jazz for dancing (upright bass)
SingleMalt Please - 1970s jazz fusion/hip hop (electric bass)
Rogue Baroque - medieval and baroque music (viola da gamba)
Terza - a community based choir that sings music from Corsica and Georgia (voice)
ZFE - jazz standards
Trepidations - is an ambient/noise project

While the list of people I play with on a "sub"stitute basis is necessarily changing, these are some of them:

Chance Bushman's NOLA Jitterbugs
Marty Peters and the Party Meters
Dinosaurchestra
Chris Christy
Shotgun Jazz Band
Fritzel's All Stars
Gina Leslie and Mean Gina
Ashley Beach and the Odd Ditties
Egg Yolk Jubilee
The Dukes of Dixieland
Albanie Falletta
Harry Mayronne
The Dapper Dandies
G-String Orchestra
River City Hit Squad
8 Dice Cloth
Catie Rogers' Gentilly Stompers
Steve Yokum's Catahoula Music Company
Hot Toddy and his Fully Dressed Po' Boys
Charlie Kohlmeier
The Jazz Vipers
Joe Cabral
Jeremy Joyce
Carl Keith's Tangiers Combo
Richard "Piano" Scott
Steve Detroy
Luke Brechtelsbauer
Anna Quinn
Bremner Duthie

Anais St. John
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Where

I've been living in New Orleans since 2013. That was a while ago. It's been quite a ride.
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