SCOTT FIELDS
Genres: Avant-Garde Jazz, Third Stream, Jazz Related Soundtracks, Jazz Related Improv, Composition • United States

Scott Fields, born in 1952 (an incorrect year is cited in various sources), has lived in Cologne for more than 20 years. from www.challengerecords.com Scott Fields was born in Chicago. As a teenager he played guitar, sang, and wrote songs for rock and blues bands. In his teens, however, he became interested in New Music and avant-garde jazz. The neighborhood in which he was born and raised—Hyde Park, on the city’s south side—was home to the Association for the Advancement of Creative Music. The AACM was the center of Chicago’s free jazz movement. It incorporated many musical genres, such as Asian classical music, African tribal music, and techniques that descended from European classical traditions. The experience of hearing this music and meeting some of its artists led Fields down the path of the avant-garde. At the age of 17 Fields formed the trio “Life Rhythms,” for which he played guitar, tenor and read more...