# Frank Fields

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{{off topic|date=February 2023}}{{Short description|American musician (1914-2005)}}
'''Frank Nomer Fields'''<ref>[http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/2238/004760931_00737?pid=4649928&backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2f%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fgss%3dangs-c%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gsfn%3dfrank%2bnormer%26gsfn_x%3d0%26gsln%3dfields%26gsln_x%3d0%26mswpn__ftp%3dLouisiana%252c%2bUSA%26mswpn%3d21%26mswpn_PInfo%3d5-%257c0%257c1652393%257c0%257c2%257c3246%257c21%257c0%257c0%257c0%257c0%257c%26MSAV%3d1%26msbdy%3d1914%26msddy%3d2005%26cpxt%3d1%26cp%3d12%26catbucket%3drstp%26uidh%3djq5%26pcat%3d39%26h%3d4649928%26recoff%3d7%2b9%26db%3dYMDraftCardsWWII%26indiv%3d1%26ml_rpos%3d3&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true  US Draft Card, Frank Fields, 1940].  Note: His second name is sometimes given as Norman or Normer, but on his 1940 draft card it is clearly spelled Nomer.</ref>   (May 2, 1914 &ndash; September 18, 2005) was an American [double bass](/source/double_bass) player who was involved in many [R&B](/source/R%26B), [rock and roll](/source/rock_and_roll) and [jazz](/source/jazz) recordings made in [New Orleans](/source/New_Orleans).

He was born in [Plaquemine, Louisiana](/source/Plaquemine%2C_Louisiana).  In the 1930s, he played with local jazz groups and with bandleader [Claiborne Williams](/source/Claiborne_Williams).<ref name=rockmart>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=360&dat=19941109&id=_-MyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xD4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5228,6503846&hl=en "Preservation Hall Jazz Band to perform", ''The Rockmart Journal.'', November 9, 1994, p.7]</ref>   After serving in the [US Navy](/source/US_Navy) during [World War II](/source/World_War_II), he joined [Dave Bartholomew](/source/Dave_Bartholomew)'s band as bass player, and became one of the key [session musician](/source/session_musician)s at [Cosimo Matassa](/source/Cosimo_Matassa)'s J&M Studios in New Orleans, along with guitarist [Ernest McLean](/source/Ernest_McLean), drummer [Earl Palmer](/source/Earl_Palmer), pianist Salvador Doucette, and saxophonists [Lee Allen](/source/Lee_Allen_(musician)) and [Red Tyler](/source/Red_Tyler).  Fields played on many of the seminal rhythm and blues and early rock and roll records made in New Orleans, including [Fats Domino](/source/Fats_Domino)'s "[The Fat Man](/source/The_Fat_Man_(song))" (recorded in 1949), and many of Domino's later hits; [Little Richard](/source/Little_Richard)'s "[Tutti Frutti](/source/Tutti_Frutti_(song))" (1955) and his later records on [Specialty](/source/Specialty_Records); and recordings by [Professor Longhair](/source/Professor_Longhair), [Smiley Lewis](/source/Smiley_Lewis), [Shirley & Lee](/source/Shirley_%26_Lee), [Lloyd Price](/source/Lloyd_Price), [Huey "Piano" Smith](/source/Huey_%22Piano%22_Smith), [Ray Charles](/source/Ray_Charles) and many others.<ref name=Broven/>  Fields was several years older than most of the other regular musicians.  Tyler described him as "about the most steady bass player I've ever worked with.... He plays correct, nothing fancy, very strong and dominant in his bass playing."<ref name=Broven>John Broven, ''Rhythm and Blues in New Orleans'', Pelican Publishing, 1974, pp.86-94</ref>

He worked as a television repair man at the same time as maintaining his career as a musician.<ref name=Broven/>  He continued to record as a session musician in New Orleans until the early 1990s.<ref>[http://www.lordisco.com/musicians/F5.html  Tom Lord, ''The Jazz Discography'']. Retrieved 16 October 2015</ref>  He also played with the [Preservation Hall Jazz Band](/source/Preservation_Hall_Jazz_Band) until at least 1994.<ref name=rockmart/><ref>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-02-26-ca-706-story.html  Bill Kohlhaasse, "Taking Bourbon Street on Road", ''Los Angeles Times'', February 26, 1993]. Retrieved 16 October 2015</ref>

He died in 2005 at the age of 91, and was buried at [Port Hudson National Cemetery](/source/Port_Hudson_National_Cemetery) in [Zachary, Louisiana](/source/Zachary%2C_Louisiana).

== Collaborations ==
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'''With [Fats Domino](/source/Fats_Domino)'''
* ''[Fats Domino Rock and Rollin'](/source/Fats_Domino_Rock_and_Rollin')'' (Imperial, 1956)
* ''[This Is Fats Domino!](/source/This_Is_Fats_Domino!)'' (Imperial, 1956)

'''With [Little Richard](/source/Little_Richard)'''
* ''[Here's Little Richard](/source/Here's_Little_Richard)'' (Speciality, 1957)
* ''[Little Richard](/source/Little_Richard_(album))'' (Speciality, 1958)
* ''[The Fabulous Little Richard](/source/The_Fabulous_Little_Richard)'' (Speciality, 1959)
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Category:1914 births
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Category:People from Plaquemine, Louisiana
Category:Jazz musicians from New Orleans
Category:American male double-bassists
Category:American session musicians
Category:20th-century American double-bassists
Category:20th-century American male musicians
Category:American male jazz musicians
Category:Preservation Hall Jazz Band members

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