Kansas Fields

Kansas Fields ( born December 5, 1915 in Chapman, Kansas as Carl Donnell Fields, † August 3, 1995 in Chicago) was an American jazz drummer.

Life and work

"Kansas " Fields began his career in the late 1920s in Chicago; in the 1930s he worked at King Kolax, Walter Fuller and Jimmie Noone. In 1940 he was a member of the band by Roy Eldridge in Chicago and worked over the next decade, repeated along with it. A short time he had his own ensemble. In New York he accompanied Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Carter, Edgar Hayes and Charlie Barnet and played ( at the jam sessions in Minton 's Playhouse ) with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie before his military service in World War II ableistete between 1942 and 1945 in the Navy.

After the war he worked with Cab Calloway, Claude Hopkins, Sidney Bechet, Dizzy Gillespie and Roy Eldridge (1949 ). With its own formation, he appeared in the early 1950s in Cafe Society and played for the label Hi -Lo three 78s a ( Rippin 'and Runnin '). In his quartet played Ike Quebec, Mal Waldron and bassist Alfred Matthews. Then he went in 1953 with Babs Gonzales and Mezz Mezzrow on a European tour.

Fields remained over ten years in Europe, settled in France, where he worked as a sideman with many living there or occurring American musicians such as Albert Nicholas, Bill Coleman, Peanuts Holland and Mary Lou Williams. In 1958 he joined with Bechet at the World Exhibition in Brussels. In 1965, he returned to Chicago, worked again with Gillespie ( Jamboo Caribe ) and as a studio musician. By the end of the 1970s he was still performing with local groups.

Fields, who was influenced by its own account of Sid Catlett, also worked on recordings by Big Bill Broonzy, Buck Clayton, Eddie Condon, Coleman Hawkins, Lionel Hampton, Taps Miller, Kid Ory, Bud Powell, Mel Powell and Joe Williams.