{"id":3520,"date":"2026-03-01T16:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mgsa-jazz\/?p=3520"},"modified":"2026-03-01T16:27:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:27:28","slug":"introducing-saxophonist-kristin-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mgsa-jazz\/introducing-saxophonist-kristin-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Saxophonist Kristin Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This article first appeared in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/njjs.org\/magazine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jersey Jazz Magazine, 3\/1\/26<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first time I saw her play, I was sure, at some point, she would be a lead alto saxophonist.&#8221; That was the initial reaction of North Hunterdon (NJ) High School Jazz Ensemble Director Perry Andrews when he saw <span class=\"span-149111\"><a title=\"\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"popover\" data-trigger=\"focus\" data-container=\".span-149111\" data-placement=\"top\" data-html=\"true\" data-content=\"&lt;div class='card thumb-card card-snow'&gt;&lt;div class='card-up'&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class='thumb-md thumb'&gt;&lt;a target='_blank' href='\/\/www.allaboutjazz.com\/musicians\/kristin-field'&gt;&lt;img src='https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/allaboutjazz\/photos\/profile\/musician\/59181d3db1615e6609e2f7246131c66b.jpg' alt='Kristin Field' loading='lazy' \/&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class='card-body'&gt;&lt;h5&gt;&lt;a target='_blank' href='\/\/www.allaboutjazz.com\/musicians\/kristin-field'&gt;Kristin Field&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/h5&gt;saxophone, alto&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;\" data-original-title=\"\"><span class=\"nowrap\">Kristin Field<\/span><\/a><\/span>&#8216;s freshman year audition in the fall of 2019. A Jazz Studies major at Rutgers University&#8217;s Mason Gross School of the Arts, the 21-year-old Field also remembers that audition. Andrews, she said, &#8220;was a voice I could trust. He was very supportive, very kind, and very encouraging. I remember he said, &#8216;You have such a lead alto sound.&#8217; <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutjazz.com\/introducing-saxophonist-kristin-field\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a> &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article first appeared in\u00a0Jersey Jazz Magazine, 3\/1\/26 &#8220;The first time I saw her play, I was sure, at some point, she would be a lead alto saxophonist.&#8221; That was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mgsa-jazz\/introducing-saxophonist-kristin-field\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Introducing Saxophonist Kristin Field - Jazz Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mgsa-jazz\/introducing-saxophonist-kristin-field\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Introducing Saxophonist Kristin Field - Jazz Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This article first appeared in\u00a0Jersey Jazz Magazine, 3\/1\/26 &#8220;The first time I saw her play, I was sure, at some point, she would be a lead alto saxophonist.&#8221; 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