Mickey created the "Monday Night Jam Session" at the Sportsman's Lounge, which allowed many young up and coming jazz musicians to perform onstage with him.

The story is that his older brother, Warren, won a saxophone in a crap game while heading back home aboard ship after WWII.

[1][2] In the early 1950s Fields met Constance Wozniak while performing at a local jazz club.

He died at 62 on January 16, 1995 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, the city he loved.

[3] Fields was later inducted into the Great Blacks in Wax Museum in Baltimore, Maryland as one of the greatest jazz saxophonists ever known.

Fields's musical influence still lives on today through his recordings and countless proteges here in Baltimore and throughout the world.