When Joe Pass is your mentor — and fan — and you record for Steve Vai’s label, odds are you can make a guitar talk backwards. When it comes to Mimi Fox, critics say her six strings weave melodies as lovely as the ones sung by Diana Krall! Heralded as a rising star by Down Beat, Fox is at the height of her powers right now, refining a blend of bop, blues, bossa and samba on the albums She’s The Woman and Perpetually Hip.