A Magnum Opus
I had always considered my last commissioned work, “Suite: Light and Shadow,” as my favorite and best extended work, my Magnum Opus. Probably because it was my most recent commissioned […]
On Lost Home and Studio in Eaton Fire
From Magazine C / Spring 2025 / magazinec.com Photography by KURT ISWARIENKOWords by CHRISTINE LENNON DALE FIELDER, 68 Composer, band leader, and multi-instrumentalist (he plays all four saxophones — soprano, alto, tenor, […]
BLUE WORLD
BLUE WORLD Saxophone Standards Vol. 4 DALE FIELDER QUARTET Clarion Jazz 8250129 Dale Fielder – alto & tenor sax*/ Jane Getz – piano / Bill Markus – bass / Thomas […]
Chateau Saxophones and The Taiwanese Instrument Manufacturing Culture
On February 29, 2024, my new Chateau VCH-800 alto saxophone was delivered. That’s it on the photo above. For over a year, I had been looking to purchase a new […]
Creating a Moment of Effulgence in 2023
Since we haven’t put out any new physical recordings that listeners can take home (is that a thing of the past?) since 2019, I have decided for the DFQ on […]
Ending 2022 @ The Jazz Club of Sarasota
On December 17, 2022, I traveled to Sarasota, FL to perform a concert for the Jazz Club of Sarasota that Monday, December 19th. This performance came about as the result […]
Dreamsville and Xing-Ped
When I watch these 2 videos of my only performance so far in 2022, I can’t help but think, if not for the grace of the Creator, I could have […]
The Covid Era Concerts
God, I love making music! There is a sense of communing with the Truth of life, yet something ethereal and not of this world. And with what you feel in […]
Consensus In New York
We are currently living in an era of acquiescent mediocrity. This is brought on by the allowance of businesses and corporations to run our society as well as our government. Nothing […]
Consensus at Alvas Showroom
On Saturday evening July 14, 2018, I recorded my 20th CD in front of a large and appreciative audience at the now legendary SoCal venue, Alvas Showroom in San […]
Frugal Apathy 