About the Author

Carmen Fields

Carmen Fields, author of Going Back to T-Town: The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band, is an Emmy Award–winning broadcast news journalist who currently produces and hosts the public affairs program Higher Ground on WHDH-TV, Boston. She co-anchored WGBH’s Ten O’Clock News from 1987 to 1991 and wrote the script for the American Experience documentary “Goin’ Back to T-Town” (1993). Going Back to T-Town tells the story of Fields’ father, Ernie Fields, leader of one of the best territory jazz bands in the early 20th century.

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