Joe Fields (1929 – July 12, 2017)[1] was an American producer and record executive, active mainly in jazz music.

Schlitten split with Fields in 1978 to found the Xanadu label, after which Fields held sole control of Muse.

Fields also owned the rights to the Savoy Records catalog for a time in the 1980s, having purchased the catalog from Arista Records, and subsequently selling it to Denon.

(As of 2009, the library is controlled and distributed in the U.S. through Tokyo's Columbia Music Entertainment wholly owned Savoy Jazz label (the current owner of the Savoy Records masters.)

The HighNote roster is made up of many of the mainstay Muse artists, like Houston Person, Joey DeFrancesco, and Wallace Roney.