Alex Moxon - Alex Moxon Quartet (2020)

Alex Moxon is a guitarist and composer from Ottawa Ontario. To date he has performed and collaborated with many stylistically far-flung Canadian music mainstays while continuing to create, refine, and release his own music.

As a working musician in the 21st century, he has been omnivorous. Some of his favourite past musical experiences include opening for Fred Wesley (of James Brown & The JB’s) and Bernie Worrell (of Parliament Funkadelic), performing with the Central Band of the Canadian Armed Forces as the feature guitarist in their 2112: Rush Tribute show, sold-out record releases with The Chocolate Hot Pockets and with HILOTRONS, performing in the pit for the Broadway musical Beautiful (The Carole King Story), a 3 a.m duo set of freely improvised music and deconstructions of Spice Girls hits with drummer Michel Delage during the Ottawa Jazz Festival's 24-Hour Jazz Ramble, and performing with Candian indigenous superstar Iskwe and NACO at the 2019 National Arts Centre Gala.

Busy schedule aside, jazz endures as a centerpiece of Alex’s musical life. He works frequently as a leader and as a sideman in this context, and has led a weekly gig every Thursday for a decade with The HML Trio- first at Zola’s Italian Restaurant (2010 – 2012) and then at Options Jazz Lounge (2012 – present).

He has recorded five albums as a principal or collaborative composer: The Filthy Chapter (2013) by The Chocolate Hot Pockets, To Trip With Terpsichore (2015) by HILOTRONS, Chocolate Dreamz (2015) by The Chocolate Hot Pockets, The Feast (2016) by The Chocolate Hot Pockets, and Alex Moxon Quartet (2020).