Results for "Ken Field"

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

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.

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 Revolutionary Snake Ensemble

Label: Accurate Records
Released: 2014

Agachiko: Agachiko: Yes!

by C. Michael Bailey
August 30, 2013

Agachiko is a band led by Boston-based vocalist Gabrielle Agachiko, bringing together an impressive array of musicians that includes saxophonist Russ Gershon of the Either/Orchestra, and Ken Field of the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, both distilling their amply-endowed playing down to a bare essence where all that remains is the music to support an exceptional voice and ...

Ken Field: Sensorium: Music for Dance & Film

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 23, 2013

C'è molta espressività, molta consapevolezza, molta anima, in questa musica dolente che sarà certamente utile al saxofonista e multistrumentista americano Ken Field per elaborare il lutto per la scomparsa della moglie Karen Aqua, dopo dieci anni di lotta contro il cancro. Karen era una animatrice che si applicava al cinema e alla televisione (per esempio producendo ...

Sensorium: Music for Dance & Film

By Ken Field

Label: Innova Recordings
Released: 2012
Track listing: 01. Taxonomy; 02. Twist of Fate; 03. Sensorium; 04. Corteo; 05. Noir; 06. OnOff; 07. FrontBack; 08. Noozy; 09. Bed; 10. Sanity; 11. Final E.

Armenian Folk with Jazz Orchestration: Once Upon a Time

October 29, 2012

Old Stories, New Retellings: Ara Sarkissian and Musaner’s Jazz Muses Inspire a Twist on Armenian Folk with Once Upon a Time “It’s about what you inherit,” declares Ara Sarkissian, the composer and classical pianist behind modern Armenian fusion experiment Musaner. The group has plunged into the caves of tradition to rescue melodies once left for dead ...

Daniel Bennett: The Bear Truth

by Ludwig vanTrikt
July 24, 2012

Whether considered a member of Generation X or Y, saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist/composer and bandleader Daniel Bennett's career certainly is indicative of how many young artists' careers are ascending with the advent of the internet. But Daniel has a measured cynicism towards balancing live performance with the wonders of tech.Moreover what is also refreshing about this young ...

Outpost 186 March Highlights: Jacob William

March 3, 2012

Jacob William returns his Para Quintet to Outpost 186 on Saturday March 24th after an interlude of gigs in other dubious roosts. Now that he is once more in the cozier confines of the Outpost, free of the concerns attending tavern work, he'll shine at his usual level of dazzle with his astute and earnest compadres. ...