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Scott Fields

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Fields has produced music on and off since the 1960s, first in Chicago, then in other places scattered about North America, Europe, and Asia. Cologne is now his base, if perhaps not quite yet his home. Fields' musical education was haphazard, to say the least. In a case of the blind leading the blind, at first he taught himself guitar. Later he was introduced to music theory in ad hoc study groups, attended theory and compositions courses at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and tested the patience of a half-dozen or so private guitar teachers. As a composer he first wrote simple folk songs (this is age 12 stuff), then rock songs, then parodies of rock songs (these reflected his self-loathing of his insistence on continuing to perform as a rock guitarist just for the attention), then jazz head tunes, all of which led to his current mish-mash of material that, although he has scant interest in taxonomy, could be fairly called New Music or Avant-Jazz

Album

Barclay

Label: Ayler Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Krapp's Last Tape; ... but the clouds ...; Catastrophe.

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Article: Album Review

Scott Fields Ensemble: Barclay

Read "Barclay" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Guitarist Scott Fields' distinctive approach to composition marches to the next level on this third installment of the “Beckett Trilogy," where he uses additional Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906-1989) plays as an inspiration for these three extended works, based on the novelist's text/plots. The ensemble seemingly weaves some of Beckett's black comedy and humor into ...

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Article: Album Review

Ifa y Xango Tentet: Twice Left Handed / Shavings

Read "Twice Left Handed / Shavings" reviewed by Dave Wayne


A culturally improbable collaboration of Brazilian, Portuguese, and Belgian musicians, the Ifa y Xango Tentet is easily one of the most adventurous large ensembles operating anywhere in the world today. Co-operative in nature, and playing entirely their own original compositions, the group's vision, as captured on Twice Left Handed / Shavings encompasses jazz, rock, post-rock, doom ...

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Article: Film Review

Elliott Sharp: Ostryepolya

Read "Elliott Sharp: Ostryepolya" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Elliott Sharp / Scott Fields Ostryepolya PanRec / NotTwo Records 2013 The musical meeting of innovative guitarists Elliott Sharp and Scott Fields came by coincidence. Both were aware of each other's work for many years, but the opportunity of playing as a duo never arose. Each is a ...

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Article: Profile

John Hollenbeck: profilo di artista

Read "John Hollenbeck: profilo di artista" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Lo scorso mese di agosto il 61° critics poll di Down Beat ha votato John Hollenbeck al primo posto tra gli arrangiatori emergenti, riproponendo valutazioni già espresse in passato (Rising Star Arranger nel 2012 e Rising Star Big Band nel 2011). È il doveroso riconoscimento a uno degli artisti più originali del jazz statunitense ma non ...

Album

Everything Is In The Instructions

Label: Stash Records
Released: 2013

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Article: Album Review

Scott Fields / Jeffrey Lependorf: Everything is in the instructions

Read "Everything is in the instructions" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Composer of contemporary chamber music and opera and certified master of the Japanese shakuhachi flute Jeffrey Lependorf cites an insightful incident he had with iconoclastic composer John Cage that reveals much about typical misconceptions about what is right and what is wrong in music and art. Lebendorf wanted Cage to clarify his vague instructions for a ...

Article: Album Review

Scott Fields: Moersbow/OZZO

Read "Moersbow/OZZO" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Scott Fields lascia da parte la chitarra e si concentra nella conduzione di questo ampio ensemble di musicisti, principalmente tedeschi, alle prese con alcune sue composizioni. La musica è stata registrata dal vivo in un piccolo locale di Colonia, il 25 gennaio del 2009. Il primo brano è dedicato ad un compositore di musica elettronica giapponese ...

Album

Minaret Minuets

Label: Stash Records
Released: 2011


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