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    Remembering A Record Man: Joe Fields, Label Executive, Dies At 88

    by Bob Porter Jul 18, 2017 2 minutes
    Joe Fields at the SESAC 2012 Jazz Awards Luncheon in March, 2013. / Ben Gabbe / Getty Images

    "Hey Bob Porter, this is Joe Fields. I've got a Grant Green album and I need some liner notes." That phone call was my introduction to one of the genuine good guys in the jazz business.

    The year was 1967, and I was living in California, writing the occasional liner note for Prestige Records.

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