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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.

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble: Serpentine

by Don Ball
April 16, 2026

Any jazz band, especially a brass band, that is willing and capable of taking on the erratic rhythms and wild fluctuations of a Frank Zappa instrumental is worthy of kudos. And the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble's take of “Son of Mr. Green Genes" on their release Serpentine demonstrates their immense musical capabilities. The group was ...

Serpentine

By Revolutionary Snake Ensemble

Label: Cuneiform
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Skunk is D'Funk'd; Buck; The Water is Wide; Berrendo Road; Strange Cults; Plankitude; Nezalezhnist; Son of Mr. Green Genes; Present; Xonk; Never Grow Old.

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, Thomas Morgan, Trio of Bloom & Monk

by Maurice Hogue
October 14, 2025

There's a bit of a celebratory tilt to this episode of One Man's Jazz as Boston's Revolutionary Snake Ensemble led by saxophonist Ken Field hits the 35-year mark with the release of Serpentine, the Dutch powerhouse Spinifex marks its 20th year of originality with the upcoming Maximus, and the whole jazz world celebrates the October 10th ...

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)