Scott Fields
Scott Fields 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. He works primarily in avant-garde jazz, experimental music, and contemporary classical music.
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, 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.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, as well as numerous musicians in Cologne, where he is now based.
Discography
Fugu 48 Motives January 11, 1996 Disaster at Sea An Opera Seria Five Frozen Eggs Sonotropism with Stephen Dembski Denouement Hornets Collage with Francois Houle This That Mamet 96 Gestures From the Diary of Dog Drexel Song Songs Song with Jeff Parker Christangelfox Beckett We Were the Phliks Drawings Music for the Radio Program This American Life Scharfefelder with Elliott Sharp Bitter Love Songs Samuel What We Talk with Stephan Rath Afiadacampos with Elliott Sharp Frail Lumber Minaret Minuets with Matthias Schubert Everything Is in the Instructions with Jeffrey Lependorf Kintsugi Mostly Stick Haydn Akra-Kampoj with Elliott Sharp Journeys Have Destinations of Which the Traveler Is Unaware with Jeffrey Lependorf Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame Barclay- ''Seven Deserts''