Mark Fox

Mark Fox is a composer, songwriter, recording artist, producer, soprano, tenor and baritone saxophonist, EWI and Malian harp player, who has worked for over 25 years in the international music and entertainment industry.

During Fox's decade and a half in New York City, he performed with such greats as Warren Smith, The Boys Harbor Big Band, George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars, Archie Shepp, The Violent Femmes, Eugene Chadborne, and numerous other groups and renowned artists. While living in Paris, France, he performed with greats such as Steve McCraven, Hervé Samb and Rassul Siddik.

As a producer, Fox began his journey during his final year at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in bringing a multi-disciplinary, socially relevant performance piece together that included original music for international octet; three painters working on individual & collaborative work and multicultural ethnic foods being prepared in the theater with all eating after the performance.

This led to producing a major, 14-hour benefit concert in Manhattan, NYC for legendary jazz saxophonist, Marion Brown, back in 1994. Through an old friend from Berklee College of Music, following this concert, which Fox pulled together sole-handedly in five weeks with no budget and raised over $40k for Marion & his family, offered Mark an opportunity to produce broadcast television commercials. This led to a concurrent career over the next 25 years.

In 2015, Mark Fox returned to his passion for music with a fervor like never before, currently leading several iterations of his band, Sonic Nomads.  He released his debut album as a bandleader in 2016, "Three Octaves Above the Sun" and won “Best of 2016” from allaboutjazz.com. Fox released his 2nd album, “Iridescent Sounds”, produced by legendary, multi-Grammy Award Winning producer & NEA Jazz Master, Todd Barkan, in 2019.

Since the completion of the studio sessions with Todd Barkan, Mark has been both continuing to play with his core group members and has endeavored on a challenging and new project and iteration of Sonic Nomads. The new music stemmed from Fox’s executive producer asking if he’d be open to doing a David Bowie cover song, Word on a Wind. Inspired by the creative challenge, Mark brought together an almost 20-piece ensemble with 3 singers, gospel choir and full band with horns, guitar, keys, vibes, bass, drums and percussion. The song came out so incredible that the executive producer requested that Mark write an album’s worth of songs to wrap around Word on a Wing to create an album. Almost 4-years in the making now, Sonic Nomads – Age of Grand Illusion is near completion and preparations for a major, year-long marketing and social media campaign are being made.

Fox is an endorsed artist with Selmer Paris / Conn-Selmer USA, Theo Wanne Mouthpieces, Oleg Products and Silverstein Works.