Scott Fields

Scott Fields
Chicago, 2001, by Whitney Bradshaw
Background information
Born (1953-09-30) September 30, 1953
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Genres Avant-garde jazz, experimental
Occupation(s) Musician
Instruments Guitar
Years active 1970s–present
Labels Clean Feed, Cadence Jazz, Music & Arts, Rogue Art
Associated acts Elliott Sharp, Jeff Parker, Stephen Rath,
Website www.scottfields.com

Scott Fields (born September 30, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois) is a guitarist, composer, and bandleader. He is best known for blending music that is composed with music that is written and for his modular pieces (see 48 Motives, 96 Gestures and "OZZO"). He works primarily in avant-garde jazz, experimental music, and contemporary classical music.[1]

Biography

Fields was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He started as a self-taught rock musician but soon was influenced by the musicians of the Association for the Advancement for Creative Musicians (AACM), which was active in the Hyde Park neighborhood in which he grew up. Later he studied classical guitar, jazz guitar, music composition, and music theory. In late 1973 Fields co-founded the avant-garde jazz trio Life Rhythms. When the group disbanded two years later, he played sporadically but soon was institutionalized for an extended period. He quit music almost entirely until 1989.[1]

Since then he has performed and composed actively. His ensembles and partnerships have included such musicians as Marilyn Crispell, Hamid Drake, John Hollenbeck, Joseph Jarman, Myra Melford, Jeff Parker, and Elliott Sharp.[2]

Selected discography

  • 1993 - Running with Scissors (Geode)
  • 1995 - Fugu (Clean Feed)
  • 1996 - 48 Motives (Cadence Jazz)
  • 1996 - Disaster at Sea (Music & Arts)
  • 1997 - Five Frozen Eggs (Music & Arts)
  • 1997 - Sonotropism (Music & Arts)
  • 1999 - Dénouement (Clean Feed)
  • 1999 - Fields-Houle-Roebke: Hornets Collage (Nuscope)
  • 2001 - 96 Gestures (Composers Recordings, Inc.)
  • 2001 - Mamet (Delmark)
  • 2001 - this that (Accretions)
  • 2002 - From the Diary of Dog Drexel (Rossbin)
  • 2004 - christangelfox (482 Music)
  • 2004 - Jeff Parker and Scott Fields: Song Songs Song (Delmark)
  • 2007 - We Were the Phliks (Rogue Art)
  • 2007 - Beckett (Clean Feed)
  • 2008 - Bitter Love Songs (Clean Feed)
  • 2008 - Elliott Sharp and Scott Fields: Scharfefelder (Clean Feed)
  • 2008 - Drawings (Creative Sources)
  • 2008 - Music for the Radio Program This American Life (Neos)
  • 2009 - Samuel (New World)
  • 2010 - Elliott Sharp and Scott Fields: Afiadacampos (Neos)
  • 2010 - Scott Fields and Stephan Rath: what we talk (Neos)
  • 2011 - Scott Fields and Matthias Schubert: Minaret Minuets (Clean Feed)
  • 2011 - Frail Lumber (NotTwo)
  • 2011 - Scott Fields and the Multiple Joyce Orchestra: Moersbow/OZZO (Clean Feed)
  • 2013 - Scott Fields Freetet: Kintsugi (Between the Lines)
  • 2013 - Scott Fields and Jeffrey Lependorf: Everything Is in the Instructions (Ayler)
  • 2014 - Scott Fields Feartet:Haydn (Between the Lines)
  • 2014 - Scott Fields Feartet: Mostly Stick (Between the Lines)
  • 2015 - Elliott Sharp and Scott Fields: Akra-Kampoj (New Atlantis Records)
  • 2015 - Scott Fields: Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame (New Atlantis Records)

References

  1. 1 2 "Harvey Pekar interview with Scott Fields". www.scottfields.com. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  2. ↑ Layne, Joslyn. "Scott Fields". AllMusic. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.