" data-original-title="" title="">Grace Fox, a nineteen-year-old student at the Manhattan School of Music, founder and leader of the seventeen-member, all-female Grace Fox Big Band, which has recorded and released (as of March 2022) its debut album, Eleven O' Seven.

To stock the band, Fox scanned social media to find musicians of various ages and backgrounds from across the USA. As role models for the ensemble's vision, she used the International Sweethearts of Rhythm and the New York-based DIVA Jazz Orchestra. As composer and arranger, she employed the services of one Grace Fox. So, how did everything work out? The answer lies somewhere between pleasing and passable.

The band makes an auspicious entrance with Fox's bright and brassy "Right on Red" but fails to sustain the momentum or replicate the excitement on the half-dozen remaining numbers, two of which ("I Just Found Out About Love" and Janis Ian's "Stars") are sung by Fox's older sister, Alexis. Well, it is Fox's band and she may, of course, do as she pleases. That does not mean, however, that a listener must necessarily agree with her choices. That leaves five instrumentals, three by Fox and