Scott Fields

New Beckett Quartet CD

New Word Records has released Samuel, my second CD of settings of Samuel Beckett short plays. As on Beckett"  (Clean Feed Records ), the musicians are John Hollenbeck on percussion, Scott Roller on ...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:44:00 GMT

rejected cover

It's getting to be too much. Not only has New World Records rejected perhaps the most important track on my new CD, "Samuel," (see my previous post) they have spurned my cover design as well.
Posted by on Thu, 21 May 2009 03:50:00 GMT

rejected track

For reasons unimaginable, New World Records has decided to omit the final track of my upcoming release "Samuel," another recording of settings of Samuel Beckett shorter plays with John Hollenbeck (per...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:44:00 GMT

flexible composition for large ensembles, plus a new 4tet

Last week my third modular composition, Ozzi (soon to be retitled and reregistered as ozzo) finally made it to tape, which is to say hard drive. The group was the Scott Fields Quite Large Ensemb...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:56:00 GMT

new quartet CD

The German label Neos has just released "Music for the radio program This American Life."The ensemble is Sebastian Gramss, contrabass, João Lobo, percussion, Scott Roller, cello, and myself, electric ...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:32:00 GMT

top ten smash hits

A while ago the folks at All About Jazz - Italy asked me to provide a list of 10 CDs I had been listening to more than others in my big pile of discs. They posted the list here but some reason they tr...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:14:00 GMT

solo CD

Creative Sources (www.creativesourcesrec.com) has released "drawings." It is a recording of my 171-section modular composition "drawings" for solo electric guitar. This CD includes 99 of the modules a...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:36:00 GMT

hugh jarrid strikes again

Not many critics claim to hate my work. But the few who do really do. The second-place top hater is Russell Carlson of Jazz Times. But Russ will have to step up his hating game if he wants to challeng...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:08:00 GMT

frothing at the mouth

A few friends have asked what triggered the former music critic and former label owner Jon Morgan's rant against me at (I guess it's a blog) www.bagatellen.com. Here's what happened. I was googling my...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:03:00 GMT