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Ken Field

Born: January 26

Ken Field is a saxophonist, flautist, percussionist, and composer. Since 1988 he has been a member of the internationally acclaimed electrified modern music ensemble Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, with whom he has recorded eight CDs. Field leads the {{m: Revolutionary Snake Ensemble = 16874}}, a experimental and improvisational brass band, and performs with the community-based Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band. Since 2015 he has annually led a pick-up band of unafiliated musicians at the HONK!Oz Festival in Wollongong, NSW, Australia. His solo releases document his work for layered saxophones and his soundtracks for dance and film

Celebrity Series Of Boston Announces: Jazz Along The Charles 2023

July 26, 2023

Celebrity Series of Boston opens the 2023/24 performance season with the highly anticipated return of Jazz Along the Charles—a free jazz event open to all, featuring 25 local jazz ensembles, along the Department of Conservation and Recreation’s (DCR) Charles River Esplanade. With lead sponsors the Esplanade Association and the Richard K. Lubin Family Foundation, Jazz Along ...

Hmmm

April 24, 2023

Album: Alien Field
By Ken Field
Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 03:43

Alien Field

By Ken Field

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Short Trip To Bootes; Dwelling; Hmmm; The Transducer Experiment; The Garden; Krunsch; Izar (part 1); Izar (part 2); A New Cosmo.

Transmitter

By Ken Field

Label: Neuma
Released: 2021
Track listing: Transoceanic (7:42)
Transcendantal (7:20)
Translucent (5:30)
Transducer (9:41)
Transgressive (7:39)
Transparent (8:12)

Iridescence

By Ken Field

Label: Ravello Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Inside (4:34) Ken Field, Karen Stackpole)

Ice (18:19) Ken Field, Eric Glick Rieman, Karen Stackpole)

Cinders (8:15) Eric Glick Rieman, Karen Stackpole)

Rise (8:01) Ken Field, Eric Glick Rieman)

Recede (15:36) Ken Field, Eric Glick Rieman, Karen Stackpole)

¡Golpe!, Josephine Davies & Ken Field

by Maurice Hogue
September 23, 2020

Threesomes! If that's your thing, go for it, but in jazz there's no doubt of the dominance of trios as a common format. Four outstanding trios highlight this edition of OMJ: Portugal's explorative duo ¡Golpe! adds the outstanding bassist Masa Kamaguchi for its excellent new release, Totem, while two others maintain what's working: Bill Frisell with ...

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble

Dressed a la Mardi Gras in feathered masks and multi-colored, sequined costumes, playing music that riotously combines the rhythms of New Orleans brass bands with improvisation and heaping undercurrents of funk, the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble inhabits that rare musical planet on which Sun Ra, James Brown, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, and a myriad of New Orleans marching bands jointly reside. Based physically in Boston since forming in 1990, the horn and percussion-based group is led by saxophonist/composer Ken Field, who describes it as "a funk and street beat brass band, playing New Orleans and other modern improvised celebratory styles." The Snake's music is rooted in the New Orleans tradition of jazz funerals - a tradition unique to the birthplace of jazz - which began with a 'first line' procession to the burial ground, a brass band playing hymns in a funeral dirge

I Want That Sound!

By Ken Field

Label: Innova Recordings
Released: 2016
Track listing: Slippery When Wet; Discoveries; Higgins Hollow; Nature; I Want That Sound!; Just Walk Closer; Roohane; John's Jailhouse Blues

Live Snakes

By Ken Field

Label: Accurate Records
Released: 2014