Kansas Fields
Carl Donnell "Kansas" Fields (December 5, 1915, Chapman, Kansas – March 7, 1995, Chicago, Illinois)[1] was an American jazz drummer.
Fields played in Chicago from the late 1920s, and worked with King Kolax and Jimmie Noone in the 1930s.[2] In 1940, he joined Roy Eldridge's group for a year; he returned to play with Eldridge again later in the 1940s.[2] He briefly led his own ensemble and played with Ella Fitzgerald and Benny Carter before joining the Marines during World War II.[2] After the war, he played with Cab Calloway, Claude Hopkins, Sidney Bechet, Dizzy Gillespie (recording with Gillespie in 1951), and Eldridge again before the close of the decade.[2]
He led another group of his own early in the 1950s, then played with Mezz Mezzrow in Europe in 1953.[2] Fields stayed in Europe for more than a decade; he relocated to France and worked as a sideman. In 1965, he returned to Chicago, working once more with Gillespie and doing studio work.
Discography[]
With Dizzy Gillespie
- Dee Gee Days: The Savoy Sessions (Savoy, 1951-52 [1976])
- Jambo Caribe (Limelight, 1964)
With various artists
- (London, Commodore Series, 1942)
- (JZCL, 1944)
- (Fremeaux & Associes, 1946)
- (Proper, 1946)
- (Fuel, 1946)
- (MCA, 1949)
- (Blue Star, 1950's)
- (Philips, 1950)
- (Classics, 1951)
- (Savoy Jazz, 1951)
- (Vogue, 1953)
- (Jazztone, 1953)
- (Club Francais du Disque, 1954)
- (Vogue, 1955)
- (Disques Swing, 1955)
- (Columbia, 1956)
- (Columbia, 1958)
- (Vogue, 1958)
- (Mercury, 1958)
- (Milian, 1962)
- Americans in Europe Vol. 2 (Impulse!, 1963)
- Errol Parker (Brunswick, 1963)
- (Vogue, 1963)
- (Discovery, 1963)
- (Delmark, 1994)
- (FM Records, 2001)
References[]
- Footnotes
- ^ T. Dennis Brown, revised by Barry Kernfeld (2003). "Fields, Kansas [Carl Donnell]". Grove Music Online (8th ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.J990057.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 857. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
- General references
- 1915 births
- 1995 deaths
- American jazz drummers
- Musicians from Kansas
- 20th-century American drummers
- American male drummers
- 20th-century American male musicians
- American male jazz musicians