Jo Fooks

Saxophonist in her quartets "Sax from the City" & the "Jo Fooks Jazz Quartet"

Jo Fooks, born in Edinburgh 1975, began learning the saxophone at 16. Inspired and encouraged by local Edinburgh musicians, she went on to study Jazz at the Guildhall School of Music in London (1995-1999). Jo also studied at the Berklee School of Music in Boston after receiving a full fee scholarship for the summer Jazz program.

Her influences include Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, Charlie Parker and Sonny Rollins. Jo is currently based in London and works with a variety of musicians including Bheki Mseleku, Dave Cliff, Phil Lee and Simon Purcell.

Her Jazz group performs many of her own compositions as well as a wide variety of Jazz and Latin standards. Her saxophone quartet "Sax from the City" performs a range of easy listening music suitable for out door functions and events. She also plays in "the Good Times", a professional function band that performs covers of popular disco classics.

In 2001 she played in the Orchestra for West Side Story in South Africa and in 2002 she went on tour with a contemporary dance company " Flying Gorillas". The Jo Fooks Jazz Quartet plays regularly on the Minerva cruise ship. Jo is currently gigging in and around London and her teaching positions include tutoring the RAF bands men.

Music Samples

Jo Fooks

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Henry Mancini

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