"A trumpet that flows between the melancholic and the playful."
Josiah Blackmore, Cultural Critic
The warm sound of Mike Field's horn is smooth and melodic. It is an emerging voice in big city jazz. With twenty years experience as a soloist and collaborator, Mike is currently playing to Toronto audiences regularly at Gate 403 and at other jazz clubs around town in his own duo and trio. He is also a member of the cs field trio, an experimental music project that combines jazz with beatbox and spoken word, and of Jay Spectre, and indie rock band with a heavy hip hop influence. He can also be heard leading the horn section in reggae and world beat funk rock bands on a regular basis. His style is simple, it's sentimental, and it reflects the emotional colors we all experience in our daily lives.
Born in Toronto, Mike has toured as a jazz musician in New York City, Denver, Berlin, Frankfurt, Heidelberg and Cyprus. He performed at the Sommerwerft Theater Festival in Frankfurt, had a regular engagement in Manhattan's Washington Square Park and was the lead trumpet player in the swing band, Old Dogs New Tricks. While studying jazz performance at New York University, he worked with the renowned jazz artists Don Friedman, Janice Friedman, Laurie Frink, Pete Malinverni, Lew Soloff and Warren Vaché.
Official Website:
www.mikefieldjazz.com
Some Recent Performances:
August 29, 2007 - Le St. Tropez - with Jonah Cristall-Clarke, piano (Toronto)
August 25, 2007 - Le St. Tropez - with Ali Berkok, piano (Toronto)
August 24, 2007 - Le St. Tropez - with Ali Berkok, piano (Toronto)
August 21, 2007 - Clinton's - with the cs field trio (Toronto)
August 18, 2007 - Gate 403 - with Ali Berkok, piano (Toronto)
August 10, 2007 - DASLABOR Art Gallery - with the cs field trio (Berlin)
August 9, 2007 - Brauseboys - with the cs field trio (Berlin)
August 3, 2007 - Bourgeois Pig - with the cs field trio (Heidelberg)
July 31, 2007 - Sommerwerft Theater Festival - with the cs field trio (Frankfurt)
July 29, 2007 - Sonntagsshow - with the cs field trio (Berlin)
July 26, 2007 - Chausee der Enthusiasten - RAW Tempel - with the cs field trio (Berlin)
July 13, 2007 - I.V. Lounge - with the cs field trio (Toronto)
July 2, 2007 Trident Booksellers Cafe - with the cs field trio (Boulder)
June 30, 2007 Hooked on Colfax - with the cs field trio (Denver)
June 28, 2007 Common Grounds LoDo - with the cs field trio (Denver)
June 26, 2007 Gypsy House - Black Star Dog - with the cs field trio (Denver) May 29, 2007 Victory Cafe - The Art Bar - with the cs field trio (Toronto)
May 26, 2007 Gate 403 Guest Performer with Ali Berkok, piano (Toronto)
May 26, 2007 The Tranzac - Sammy Sugar Day Festival - with the cs field trio (Toronto)
May 24, 2007 It's Not a Deli - with the cs field trio (Toronto)
May 22, 2007 The Renaissance Cafe - with the cs field trio (Toronto)
May 22, 2007 El Mocambo - Toronto Poetry Slam - with the cs field trio (Toronto)
May 13, 2007 Free Times Cafe (Toronto)
Traders Bar and Grill (Toronto)
Gate 403 Guest Performer with Leigh Graham (Toronto)
Eastern Mediterranean University (Famagusta, Cyprus)
VIPs (Larnaka, Cyprus)
The Ultra Violet Cafe (New York City)
Washington Square Park Summer in the Park (New York City)
Pier 54 (New York City)
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