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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Scene From A Dream ~The Dale Fielder/Geri Allen Session
A young man with a horn. Me at age 26 circa 1983. This was to be an LP cover for my very first recording: “Scene From A Dream” featuring at the time, the completely unknown and future jazz legend, Geri Allen.
Traverse Adverse 2017 @Alvas Showroom
Playing this music called jazz is not for the faint of heart. I have watched throughout the new millennium the marginalization of this music with each passing year. To be […]
Frugal Apathy 