Scott Fields
| Scott Fields | |
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Chicago, 2001, by Whitney Bradshaw
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| Background information | |
| Born |
September 30, 1948 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, James Choice |
| Website | www |
Scott Fields (born September 30, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois) is a guitarist, composer, and bandleader. He is best known for his attempts to blend music that is composed and 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 New Music.
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 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 almost quit music 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.
Fields is recognized as a specialist in extended techniques for guitar.
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