This article first appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine, 3/1/26
“The first time I saw her play, I was sure, at some point, she would be a lead alto saxophonist.” That was the initial reaction of North Hunterdon (NJ) High School Jazz Ensemble Director Perry Andrews when he saw Kristin Field‘s freshman year audition in the fall of 2019. A Jazz Studies major at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, the 21-year-old Field also remembers that audition. Andrews, she said, “was a voice I could trust. He was very supportive, very kind, and very encouraging. I remember he said, ‘You have such a lead alto sound.’ Read more …