Boney Fields and The Bone's Project Downloads

Boney was born in the Northern district of Chicago in 1958. His family moved to the West Side where he grew up among eight brothers and sisters in a strong musical environment. Both his father and uncle played guitar and sang gospel, while his mother was the local church choir leader.It was when... Learn More »

Boney was born in the Northern district of Chicago in 1958. His family moved to the West Side where he grew up among eight brothers and sisters in a strong musical environment. Both his father and uncle played guitar and sang gospel, while his mother was the local church choir leader.
It was when watching artists such as Louis Armstrong or James Brown on television that young Boney decided he too wanted to be a musician. At age 12, he asked to play drums in his school band. But his music teacher had another plan for him : as trumpet players were lacking and very needed in his college band, Boney had to play trumpet !!
He started playing professionally in 1979, working with different local both funk and jazz bands. His main influences at the time included the James Brown and the JB’s, Earth Wind & Fire and Bootsy Collins on the funk side as well as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis or Clifford Brown on the jazz end.
He also hung out in many blues clubs in Chicago, listening to some of the most influential blues musicians such as Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, Johnny Dollar or Albert King...
He got his first major break in the blues circuit two years later when Jimmy Johnson hired him for his US tour.
Then, Boney Fields left Chicago for LA in 1983 where he played with Smokey WILSON and Albert Collins.
He returned to Chicago the following year to join Little Milton’s band for one year.
In 1985, he joined The James Cotton Blues Band. He quickly became the horn section leader before being appointed musical director and bandleader. James Cotton was a turning point in Boney’s career: Not only did he record two albums with Cotton but he also started touring internationally and played with major artists such as Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, AC Reed, Eddie Clearwater, Valerie Wellington and others...
Boney still never misses an opportunity to say how impressed he was by James Cotton’s sense of performance, by his aura and energy on stage and the way he captured the audience’s attention.
After a few years though, Boney began to feel it was time to move on: he was getting bored with Chicago and didn’t want to play in the same clubs he had known for years.
In 1990, he moved down to Louisiana to join the Kenny Neal Blues Band. He recorded 2 albums with them, with a prestigious horn section line-up including Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley.
Today however, his main concern lies with The Bone’s Project. Entertainer, singer trumpet player and MC all at the same time, Boney leads his powerful seven-piece band on all stages and festivals throughout Europe at a rate of over 50 gigs a year.
His only motto: the audience must have a good time!!! This is party music, very much away from all clichés about Blues being an old man whining over his guitar.
Through his many encounters with master musicians from all over the world and different musical horizons, Boney has created his own vision of the blues. His music is a musical spectrum so wide it goes from blues to funk, from world music to rock and from rhythm and blues to jazz without even hearing the difference or thinking about it.
A form of blues that is not interested in belonging to which or which musical chapel, a music whose only concern is for the public to have a roar of a time…
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