Joe Fields (producer)

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Joe Fields was an American producer and record executive, active mainly in jazz music.

Fields worked for Prestige Records as an executive in the 1960s. He and producer Don Schlitten cofounded Cobblestone Records, a subsidiary of Buddah Records, in 1972, and soon after founded Muse Records and its sister label Onyx Records. Schlitten split with Fields in 1978 to found the Xanadu label, after which Fields held sole control of Muse. Fields later sold Muse to Joel Dorn, who has released much of Muse's back catalog under the label 32 Jazz. Fields also owned the rights to the Savoy Records catalog for a time, and worked at Landmark and Trix.

Fields and his son Barney Fields co-founded HighNote Records in 1996, which is still active.