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Ken Field

Born: January 26

Ken Field is a composer, saxophonist, flautist, and percussionist. He has received international public and critical acclaim for his solo work, his work with the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble (which he leads), Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Willie Loco Alexander's Persistence of Memory Orchestra, and the Armenian/American jazz project Musaner, as well as his commissioned compositions and performances with Bridgman/Packer Dance. Field has composed a number of pieces for the children's television program Sesame Street.  He was named a Finalist in Music Composition by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and currently serves as President of the Board of Directors of JazzBoston and as Chair of the Truro Concert Committee.  He is Past President of the Board of Directors of Tutoring Plus of Cambridge and a past member of the Organizing Committee of the HONK! Festival.  Field hosts The New Edge, a weekly radio program of creative instrumental music currently airing on WMBR, WOMR, and taintradio.

The Canopy

By Ken Field

Label: Neuma Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: The Serving; Also Known As; Laevinic Defeat; Culture; Four Words; Mirror; Day By Day; Deluge; Darkness Into Light

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

With their new album "Serptentine" due for release on Cuneiform Records in September 2025, and performances scheduled thru 2026, the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble is continuing their tradition of pushing the envelope!  Dressed a la Mardi Gras in multi-colored, sequined costumes, playing music that riotously combines the rhythms of New Orleans brass bands with improvisation and heaping undercurrents of funk, the 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

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