Ken Field - Musical Groups

Musical Groups

Birdsongs of the Mesozoic
Experimental, instrumental, challenging (but rewarding...) music. NY Times says it "sounds like a party in a Cubist roadhouse".
Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
Improvisational horn and percussion band that likes to dress up and march around in front of people. **Boston Music Award & Phoenix/WFNX Best Music Poll nominees**
The Circadian Rhythm Kings
Free improvisational ensemble featuring Todd Brunel, Andrew Hickman, Gary Fieldman, John Funkhouser, with a new self-titled digital release now available from Innova Recordings
Musaner
Ara Sarkissian's elegant, creative, and often brilliant arrangements of traditional Armenian and Balkan folk music mixed with Ara's own original compositions and flavored with improvisation.
Occasionally the following projects:
- Chandler Travis Philharmonic
  Known for his work with The Incredible Casuals, Chandler is a wonderful songwriter with a unique and humorous perspective on life. That's another way of saying that he's a twisted genius.
- Willie Alexander's Persistence of Memory Orchestra
  Boston rock legend Willie Loco Alexander's experimental beat poetry/jazz/rock & roll project. Willie is brilliant. The two CDs ("Persistence of Memory Orchestra" & "The East Main Street Suite") were on Accurate. Find them. Quite simply, they are masterpieces.
- The Leda Row Trio
  Two saxes and drums playing Andrew Hickman's compositions based on twelve-tone rows, and other guided improvisations.
- The Ken Field Alto Saxophone Project
  Music for alto saxophones with acoustic bass and drums.
Past projects:
- Bad Art Ensemble
  Former Wednesday night band at the Plough and Stars, Mass Ave, Cambridge. You had a good time!
- Crown Electric Company
  70's R&B love thang. **1998 Boston Music Award nominees**
- Alto Reform School
  Nine-piece three-female-vocalist-fronted all-star 70's soul/r&b band
- The Board of Education
  Post-neo-hippy groove/funk/jam band. House band Thursdays at the Middle East Corner/Bakery, Cambridge from 1997-2003.
- Dig Big
  Funky saxophone quartet with Jeff Robinson (Jeff Robinson Trio, x-Shy Five), Henley Douglas (Boston Horns, x-Heavy Metal Horns), Dave Sholl (Four Piece Suit, Barrence Whitfield)
- Skin
  Boston's premiere psychedelic funk band circa 1985-88. Think Prince meets INXS.