Scott Fields is a guitarist and composer from Madison currently living and working in Cologne, Germany. On July 27, 2018 at 8pm, he will perform new material, including work from his New Atlantis CD "Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame." Tickets $10 in advance at https://scottfields.bpt.me or $12 at the door. Online ticket sales end 1 hour before the show. Doors open at 7:30pm. General admission.
Scott Fields
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 soprano saxophone, flute, clarinet, and sundry percussion. Life Rhythms, the loudest avant-jazz group in Chicago, performed most often at rock venues and festivals.
At the age of 23 Fields stopped performing and... Read More
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