Field is the President of the Board of JazzBoston, a non-profit that advocates for the Boston-area jazz community of musicians, audiences, venues, and media.
Field is the Chair of the Truro (MA) Concert Committee, which presents a series of free weekly summer concerts at the Truro Public Library.
With John Bechard, Field co-curated the Boiler House Jazz Series for three years, an improvisational music series currently on hiatus at the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation in Waltham, MA. The boiler room at the Museum is a unique acoustic space with a 42 foot high ceiling. The series focused on performances by duos who did not regularly perform together.
Field hosts The New Edge, a two-hour weekly radio program broadcasting and webcasting Tuesday afternoons from 2-4pm Boston time on WMBR, 88.1FM in Cambridge. The show features innovative and creative mostly instrumental music at the boundaries of classical, jazz, and world styles.
Starting in 1992, Field organized the Norman J Field Lectures in Science, now on indefinite hiatus, in Monmouth County, New Jersey. The free annual lecture, a memorial to his late father, Dr. Norman J Field, took place annually for 10 years, with a distinguished lecturer chosen each year to speak on a scientific topic of general interest.
For over 15 years, Field served as a volunteer tutor in math, English, and other subjects for Cambridge elementary and middle school students through the one-on-one program of Tutoring Plus, where he is now Vice President of the Board of Directors.
Field was a long-time member of the organizing committee for HONK! Festival, an annual gathering of activist brass bands from around the world, which takes place in and around Davis Square, Somerville and throughout the Boston area.
A member from 1997-2011, and now member emeritus, Field is former Chair of the Cambridge (MA) Bicycle Committee, whose mission is to encourage safe bicycling through educational and infrastructure initiatives.
Field co-originated & co-directed Cultural Constructions, a bi-annual concert, now on hiatus, formerly hosted by the ICA in Boston in which four musicians from four different musical cultures were brought together to perform as a single ensemble.