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News: Performance / Tour

Ken Field's Revolutionary Snake Ensemble Returns to NYC

May 9, 2011

Boston's Acclaimed Revolutionary Snake Ensemble Returns to New York City Bringing their Avant Second Line New Orleans Funk Back For the First Time in Two Years “The Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, a writhing, horn-heavy group led by the Boston-based saxophonist and composer Ken Field, dresses in feathered masks and sequined robes and covers a broad range of ...

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News: Event

Downtown Boston's Jazz Swarms for Jazz Week from JazzBoston

May 1, 2011

Ken Field graciously shared his sense of the role of swarming. It really turns on the reappearance of music in the public square without the conventions of venue performance. “Since the earliest days of my musical career I have always been attracted to the choral and contrapuntal sound of multiple iterations of the same instrument. Decades ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Ken Field

January 26, 2011

All About Jazz is celebrating Ken Field's birthday today! Ken FieldKen 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... more Website | Photos ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Ken Field

January 26, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Ken Field's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Ken FieldKen 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 ...

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News: Interview

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble's Ken Field Interviewed at AAJ

March 10, 2009

Saxophonist/composer Ken Field describes the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble as a “funk and street beat brass band playing New Orleans and other modern improvised celebratory styles." Playing original compositions and those of artists as diverse as Billy Idol and Ornette Coleman, the RSE was formed in 1990 to entertain a at a pagan women's ritual celebration. The ...

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Article: Interview

Ken Field & The Revolutionary Snake Ensemble: The Musical Road Less Taken

by Tod Smith
March 10, 2009

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Ken Field

January 26, 2009

Album

Forked Tongue

By Ken Field

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2008

Article: Album Review

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble: Forked Tongue

Read "Forked Tongue" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 18, 2008

Il Revolutionary Snake Ensemble di Ken Field conferma con questo eccitante Forked Tongue la buonissima impressione che ci aveva lasciato col disco di esordio Year of the Snake (uscito per Innova nel 2003). La trama di fondo è sempre quella delle marching band di New Orleans ma gli sviluppi dell’azione ci portano inesorabilmente ben oltre i ...

Article: Album Review

Ken Field: Under the Skin

Read "Under the Skin" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 2, 2007

La Bridgman/Packer Dance Company ha commissionato al saxofonista d’avanguardia Ken Field la musica per un proprio progetto multimediale che prevede un approccio molto disinibito alle meraviglie della coreografia e del materiale video, in continuità con le intuizioni di Merce Cunningham e John Cage che negli anni quaranta rivoluzionarono l’approccio sin lì piuttosto ingessato alle collaborazioni fra ...