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Welcome to the WBEZ book Club.
I'm Jordan Rich. Carmen Fields is the

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Emmy Award winning broadcast news journalist who's
had a brilliant career here in Boston.

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Now she's written a beautiful memoir about
her father called Going Back to Tea Town

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The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band.
Carmen's father, Ernie born in nineteen o

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four, was the leader of one
of the best performing jazz and swing music

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bands coming out of the Midwest.
He was not only a talented musician,

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but a pretty fine businessman who held
his bands together and toured successfully despite many

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obstacles, including racial segregation during the
Jim Crow era. The music business today

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is tough, and back then it
was even tougher, and Carmen beautifully chronicles

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the ups and downs of the industry
and how her dad, although not a

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superstar, was consistently working bringing great
music to the public. Going Back to

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Tea Town The Ernie Fields Territory Big
Band by Carmen Fields and That's the book

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Club. WZ, Boston's news radio