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Ken Field

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Ken Field is a composer, saxophonist, flautist, and percussionist. He has received international public and critical acclaim for his solo work, his work with the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble (which he leads), Birdsongs of the MesozoicWillie Loco Alexander's Persistence of Memory Orchestra, and the Armenian/American jazz project Musaner, as well as his commissioned compositions and performances with Bridgman/Packer Dance. Field has composed a number of pieces for the children's television program Sesame Street.  He was named a Finalist in Music Composition by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and currently serves as President of the Board of Directors of JazzBoston and as Chair of the Truro Concert Committee.  He is Past President of the Board of Directors of Tutoring Plus of Cambridge and a past member of the Organizing Committee of the HONK! Festival.  Field hosts The New Edge, a weekly radio program of creative instrumental music currently airing on WMBR, WOMR, and taintradio.

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Article: Album Review

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble: Serpentine

Read "Serpentine" reviewed by Don Ball


Any jazz band, especially a brass band, that is willing and capable of taking on the erratic rhythms and wild fluctuations of a Frank Zappa instrumental is worthy of kudos. And the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble's take of “Son of Mr. Green Genes" on their release Serpentine demonstrates their immense musical capabilities. The group was ...

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Serpentine

Label: Cuneiform
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Skunk is D'Funk'd; Buck; The Water is Wide; Berrendo Road; Strange Cults; Plankitude; Nezalezhnist; Son of Mr. Green Genes; Present; Xonk; Never Grow Old.

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, Thomas Morgan, Trio of Bloom & Monk

Read "Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, Thomas Morgan, Trio of Bloom & Monk" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


There's a bit of a celebratory tilt to this episode of One Man's Jazz as Boston's Revolutionary Snake Ensemble led by saxophonist Ken Field hits the 35-year mark with the release of Serpentine, the Dutch powerhouse Spinifex marks its 20th year of originality with the upcoming Maximus, and the whole jazz world celebrates the October 10th ...

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The Canopy

Label: Neuma Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: The Serving; Also Known As; Laevinic Defeat; Culture; Four Words; Mirror; Day By Day; Deluge; Darkness Into Light

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News: Festival

Celebrity Series Of Boston Announces: Jazz Along The Charles 2023

Celebrity Series Of Boston Announces: Jazz Along The Charles 2023

Celebrity Series of Boston opens the 2023/24 performance season with the highly anticipated return of Jazz Along the Charles—a free jazz event open to all, featuring 25 local jazz ensembles, along the Department of Conservation and Recreation’s (DCR) Charles River Esplanade. With lead sponsors the Esplanade Association and the Richard K. Lubin Family Foundation, Jazz Along ...

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Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 03:43

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Alien Field

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Short Trip To Bootes; Dwelling; Hmmm; The Transducer Experiment; The Garden; Krunsch; Izar (part 1); Izar (part 2); A New Cosmo.

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Transmitter

Label: Neuma
Released: 2021
Track listing: Transoceanic (7:42)
Transcendantal (7:20)
Translucent (5:30)
Transducer (9:41)
Transgressive (7:39)
Transparent (8:12)

Album

Iridescence

Label: Ravello Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Inside (4:34) Ken Field, Karen Stackpole)

Ice (18:19) Ken Field, Eric Glick Rieman, Karen Stackpole)

Cinders (8:15) Eric Glick Rieman, Karen Stackpole)

Rise (8:01) Ken Field, Eric Glick Rieman)

Recede (15:36) Ken Field, Eric Glick Rieman, Karen Stackpole)


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