Joe Fields died earlier this month, on 7/12. He was 88. You've probably never heard of him; I hadn't until the news of his death circulated, but he was a very important figure in jazz for decades. He wasn't a musician -- he was a label guy. He started in the record business in the late 1950s, working for several labels including Verve and Prestige. Eventually, he moved to Buddah Records where he started a short-lived jazz label called Cobblestone that put out albums by Grant Green, Jimmy Heath, Cedar Walton and Hank Mobley, Pat Martino, and Sonny Stitt, among many others. In 1973, he bought Cobblestone from Buddah and renamed it Muse.