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... US-amerikanischen Avant-Garde-Jazz- & New-Music-Gitarristen

SCOTT FIELDS

werden die folgenden Formationen / Ensembles angeboten:

I.
SCOTT FIELDS FREETET: ‘Bitter Love Songs’
Sebastian Gramss - b, Joao Lobo - dr, S.F. - el-guitar

Ia.
SCOTT FIELDS FREETET ...
plus Matthias Schubert - sax

II.
SCOTT FIELDS ENSEMBLE: ‘Beckett’
Matthias Schubert - sax, Scott Roller - cello,
John Hollenbeck - dr, S.F. - el-guitar

III.
SCOTT FIELDS ENSEMBLE: ‘This American Life’
Gramss, Lobo, Fields plus Scott Roller - cello

IV.
FIELDS & RATH: ‘Modern Music for Early Instruments’
S.F. - classical-guitar, Stephan Rath - theorbe, bass-lute

sowie:

PARKER & FIELDS:
‘Song Songs Song’
Jeff Parker - el-guitar, S.F. - el-guitar

SHARP & FIELDS:
‘Scharfefelder’
Elliott Sharp - acoustic-guitar, S.F. - acoustic-guitar

SCOTT FIELDS ENSEMBLE:
‘We Were The Phliks’
Matthias Schubert - sax, Thomas Lehn - electronics,
Xu Fengxia - gu-zheng, S.F. - el-guitar

SCOTT FIELDS FREETET
‘BITTER LOVE SONGS’

AVAILABLE AS SPECIAL GUEST:
MATTHIAS SCHUBERT - TENOR SAXOPHONE

The SCOTT FIELDS FREETET was inspired by the classic free-jazz groups of the 1960s, but with a twist. Like Ornette Coleman’s 1960s jazz-based, but chord-free quartets and trios, the Freetet works within a head-solos-interludes-solos-head structure. The twist is in the heads themselves.
Unlike classic free jazz, which was usually in 4/4 or jazz waltz time, The Freetet’s book is crammed full of shifting, complex and compound time signatures, adding and dropping fractional beats, to give the music a quirky, jerky character, while still maintaining a jazz feel and drive.
Fields, Gramss and Lobo dig deep into their jazz roots. Fields abandons his collection of sound-modification hardware to let a clean jazz tone sing out. Gramss and Lobo strip their sound arsenals to the fundamental core. The result is eccentric, propulsive, engaging free jazz.

“When Fields and guitarist Jeff Parker convened a double-trio for Dénouement, the level of interplay from the ‘paired Freetets’ astounded this writer. On Bitter Love Songs, multiplying the equation is unnecessary, as there’s so much music available here.”

CLIFFORD ALLEN - ALL ABOUT JAZZ

“Man kennt den in Köln lebenden Chicagoer Gitarristen von seinen Arbeiten mit Joseph Jarman, Hamid Drake, Mat Maneri, Marilyn Crispell, Michael Formanek oder Jeff Parker, alle veröffentlicht auf Kleinstlabel wie Black Saint, Delmark und Music And Arts. Gleich zwei CD's erscheinen von ihm dieser Tage: die sehr krude Improvisationsmusik "Scharfefelder", ein Duo mit Saitenkollege Elliott Sharp, und die ganz anders gearteten "Bitter Love Songs". Zwar ebenfalls, in weiten Zügen, Improvisationsmusik, fesselt sie aber von Beginn an. Fields widmet sich durchgängig der freien Jazz-Form, wie sie Ornette Coleman mit seinen einstigen Gitarristen James "Blood" Ulmer oder Bern Nix etablierte. Dessen Harmolodic-System stand wohl Pate bei den sechs Stücken voller organisierter Unordnung. Fields zieht seine steil an- und absteigenden Flugbahnen ganz in dieser Tradition der "Umdeutung des Vorgefundenen" über lineare Intervallreihen. Seine zwei technisch hervorragenden Kollegen Sebastian Gramms und der Portugiese João Lobo begleiten den Gitarristen dabei mit feinsinnigen Überlappungen, führen lebhafte Kommunikationen. Diese Musik ist Free, hat gleichzeitig aber auch eine fesselnde Melodiehaftigkeit und starke Blues-Verwurzelung - ungemein aufregend.”

OLAF MAIKOPF - ALL MY JAZZ (ONLINE)

FIELDS (AMERICAN, FROM CHICAGO), GRAMSS (GERMAN) AND SCHUBERT (GERMAN) LIVE IN COLOGNE. LOBO (PORTUGUESE) LIVES IN BRUSSELS.

BITTER LOVE SONGS is a 2008 ‘Clean Feed Records’ release.

SCOTT FIELDS ENSEMBLE
‘THE BECKETT PROJECT’

The Beckett music is the second project in which Fields sets a playwrights words to music (the first was ‘Mamet’, on the Chicago label Delmark).
For these projects the feel is somewhere between Free Jazz and New Music. In these ‘theatrical’ projects, the dialog is set literally, with a pitch and rhythm for each syllable. The Samuel Beckett plays are short enough so that every word can be heard as a corresponding pitch and rhythm.
The music is also largely programmatic in that the textures are meant to remind the listener of the mood of the plays, the characters actions, and the settings.

In live performance the ensemble performs compositions from the 2007 ‘Clean-Feed’-BECKETT-CD and other pieces from the Fields catalog. This material provide a universe in which the musicians draw on their entire musical bag of tricks.

“Although conceptual allusions to literature might suggest haughty pretension, Beckett is actually Fields’ most varied and swinging record in years. Even at their most abstract, these are engaging compositions, bolstered by zealous group interaction, rich harmonic ingenuity and stunning dynamic range. Like the work of its dedicatee, one listen to this album won’t do it justice.”

TROY COLLINS - ALL ABOUT JAZZ

“Whatever, when you think Beckett you don’t automatically think of elegant and intricately crafted modern chamber jazz, but that’s precisely what guitarist Scott Fields offers us here on this magnificent quartet outing. (...) The playing of all four musicians throughout is exemplary, the scores cunningly crafted and intriguing to the point of being frustrating (and if that isn’t Beckettian, I don’t know what is) and the recording superb. What more could you ask for? A sequel, perhaps.”

DAN WARBURTON - PARIS TRANSATLANTIC MAGAZINE

FIELDS, HOLLENBECK, AND ROLLER ARE AMERICAN. SCHUBERT
IS GERMAN. ALL FOUR MUSICIANS LIVE IN GERMANY.

SCOTT FIELDS ENSEMBLE
‘THIS AMERICAN LIFE PROJECT’

This strings-and-percussion version of the Scott Fields Ensemble plays extended pieces in which time at one moment is suspended and in the next is rock solid.
The group was assembled to record these Fields compositions for the New Music and avant-jazz label ‘Neos’. The group’s first recording is scheduled for release in early 2008.
The focus of the group’s repertoire is texture, melody, space, and density. The music’s vibe swings from 20th-century classical music, to post-bob grooves, to spacious Western landscapes.

“From aleatoric excursions to blistering, jittery free-bop, Fields has an ear for adventurous, unconventional sounds.”

TROY COLLINS - ALL ABOUT JAZZ

“Fields’ compositions manage to be both stirring and affecting.”

KEN WAXMAN - CODA MAGAZINE

“Fields’ comfortable guitar remains capable of expressing a wide range of emotion, from quiet inhibition to rage.”

JIM SANTELLA - CADENCE MAGAZINE

“He is a musician of considerable conceptual sophistication. He is also judicious in his choice of collaborators, inviting along musicians who will galvanize any concept into active life.”

JULIAN COWLEY - THE WIRE MAGAZINE

“In general, Fields’ music is unique but surprisingly accessible, often featuring long-lined solos.”

HARVEY PEKAR - JAZZIZ

“Fields is equally talented at composing, crafting long skeins of dense melodic interplay through which solo passages emanate with ease.”

PETER MARGASAK - CHICAGO READER

FIELDS AND ROLLER ARE AMERICAN. GRAMSS IS GERMAN. ALL THREE
LIVE IN GERMANY. LOBO IS PORTUGUESE AND LIVES IN BRUSSELS.

FIELDS & RATH
‘MODERN MUSIC FOR EARLY INSTRUMENTS’

The duo of Scott Fields and Stephan Rath was formed by the ‘2007 Köln MusikTriennale’ as part of a series that paired Old Music specialists with New Music specialists. Since then the duo has continued to perform and record the works of Fields and other composers.
In all of the compositions Fields has written for the duo, the balance between improvised elements and notated elements fluctuates freely. This approach is natural to both the Old Music world and Fields’ New Music ensembles.
In performance Fields - Rath plays solo material as well as duets. Often Old Music works are mixed with contemporary material.

Fields is equally talented at composing, crafting long skeins of dense melodic interplay through which solo passages emanate with ease.

PETER MARGASAK - CHICAGO READER

“He is a musician of considerable conceptual sophistication. He is also judicious in his choice of collaborators, inviting along musicians who will galvanize any concept into active life.”

JULIAN COWLEY - THE WIRE MAGAZINE

FIELDS (AMERICAN) AND RATH (GERMAN) LIVE IN COLOGNE.

WEITERHIN ...

... SIND (ÜBER DAS MANYAKS CONCERTBUERO) DIE FOLGENDEN
SCOTT-FIELDS-FORMATIONEN / -ENSEMBLES BUCHBAR:

PARKER & FIELDS
‘SONG SONGS SONG’

Jeff Parker and Scott Fields have worked together since 1997 and they formed the Parker-Fields duo in 2002. Both compose material for the duo, which sits squarely in the avant-jazz camp. The duo has performed throughout the United States. Their first CD, 'Song Songs Song', is on the Chicago label Delmark. The guitarists are preparing material for their second release, which is scheduled for 2009.

JEFF PARKER IS BEST KNOWN AS A MEMBER OF THE POST-ROCK GROUP ‘TORTOISE’, THE GROOVE-BASED, MILES DAVIS-INFLUENCED GROUP ‘ISOTOPE 217’ AND THE POST-BOP JAZZ GROUP ‘THE CHICAGO UNDERGROUND ORCHESTRA’.
PARKER IS A FULL-TIME MEMBER OF “CHICAGO’S ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CREATIVE