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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 Revolutionary Snake Ensemble

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

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble's "Live Snakes" To Be Released By Accurate Records March 11

January 29, 2014

Boston-based saxophonist/composer Ken Field has drawn deeply from the wellspring of the New Orleans brass band tradition since forming his Revolutionary Snake Ensemble in 1990. Using the boisterous rhythms of that tradition as a launching pad for unbridled improvisations on both original and traditional material, the band has emerged as a singular force in the music. ...

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 & The Revolutionary Snake Ensemble: The Musical Road Less Taken

by Tod Smith
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 ...

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble in Boston, Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Worldwide!

February 11, 2009

It's a difficult time, and doubly so for small independent record companies like our Maryland-based label Cuneiform Records. Not only are sales down due to the economy--CD burning and illegal free download sites are cutting significantly into the market. You can support dedicated and creative independent music businesses by buying a CD or two, and of ...

Publisher's Top Picks for 2008

by Michael Ricci
January 19, 2009

It was another productive year for “Team AAJ" as we delivered some new features and upgraded several others across the website. We also beefed up our editorial staff to better manage the increasing number of contributors. The programming staff (Mike Lorenz and myself) continued to build on our foundation that has firmly established AAJ as the ...

Forked Tongue

By Revolutionary Snake Ensemble

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Just A Closer Walk; Slots; Little Lisa Jane; The Large S; Chippie; Give Me Jesus; Down By The Riverside; Que Sera Sera; White Wedding; Minor Vee.