Gregg Field

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Gregg Field (born February 21, 1956 in Oakland ) is an American jazz musician ( drums , arrangement ).

Live and act

Field grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and began playing drums as a child, initially performing in local bands in California. From 1980 to 1982 he was a member of the Count Basie Orchestra and worked as a resident musician on shows such as Saturday Night Live , the Merv Griffin Show and Frank Sinatra ( A Man And His Music ); He also wrote arrangements for the Tonight Show orchestra and has played with Donald Byrd , Quincy Jones , George Benson , Harry James , Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter over the course of his career , as well as accompanying vocalists such as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald , Ray Charles , Natalie Cole , Sarah Vaughan , Mel Tormé , Diane Schuur , Tony Bennett and Joe Williams .

After Count Basie's death, Fields was a member of Basie alumni bands such as the Frank Wess / Harry Edison all-star band, with whom he performed at the Fujitsu Concord Jazz Festivals in Tokyo in 1989 and 1990 . In 1990 he was a member of another all-star formation under the direction of Ray Anthony (recordings with this formation were produced by Fields). In 1991 he played in Bill Berry's LA Big Band , in the following years also with the Chris Walden Big Band , the Shelly Berg Trio, and the WDR Big Band Cologne ( For Ella , 2001, with Patti Austin ). Under his own name he released the big band album The Art of Swing (DCC Compact Classics) in 1999 . Performing musicians included Snooky Young , Wayne Bergeron , Pete Christlieb , Jay Migliori , Pete Jolly and Chuck Berghofer , and the arranger was Sammy Nestico . In the field of jazz he was involved in 93 recording sessions between 1980 and 2014, apart from the aforementioned with Tee Carson , Paul Cacia , Buddy Childers , Dennis Rowland , Rosemary Clooney , Buddy Greco and Bob Florence . Since 1983 he has taught at the Thornton School of Music ( University of Southern California ) in Los Angeles and worked as a producer for Concord Records .

Field is married to singer Monica Mancini .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed March 2, 2018)
  2. ^ Gregg Field: Multi-Task Master… Jazzed Magazine, December 1, 2011, accessed February 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Janine Coveney: Monica Mancini . In: JazzTimes.com , September 2004
personal data
SURNAME Field, Gregg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Oakland