[1][2] In 1996, the debut album consisted of Gabe Jarrett on drums and Stacey Starkweather on bass.
The following year the group broke up, and Masefield kept the name with different musicians: bassist Chris Dahlgren and drummer Jon Fishman from Phish.
Masefield described the band's music as " very contrapuntal stuff, like a three-way conversation.
[3] In 2003 they released a drum & bass-influenced album called Jungle Tango, which included Ari Hoenig and Danton Boller.
In 2005 Masefield returned to a more acoustic sound with The Deep Forbidden Lake, which features cover versions of songs by Radiohead, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, and Django Reinhardt.