Ken Vandermark
Ken Vandermark (USA, 1964) is a renowned avant-garde composer, improviser, saxophonist/clarinetist, curator, and writer. He has collaborated and recorded with key figures from the AACM (Fred Anderson), FMP (Peter Brötzmann), British improvisation (Paul Lytton), post-punk (Terrie Ex), Ethiopian music (Getachew Mekuria), and Japanese free jazz (Akira Sakata). Since 2012, he has directed the Catalytic Sound cooperative and runs Audiographic Records (founded 2014). In 1999, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for his contributions to music.
Calendar
7:00 pm
Edition XL (Berman, Dessel, Finnigan, Macri, McDonald, Vandermark)
Edition XL is a new ensemble built on the foundation of Ken Vandermark’s critically acclaimed band, Edition Redux (with Erez Dessel: keyboards, Lily Finnegan: drums, Beth […]

9:30 pm
Edition XL (Berman, Dessel, Finnigan, Macri, McDonald, Vandermark)
Edition XL is a new ensemble built on the foundation of Ken Vandermark’s critically acclaimed band, Edition Redux (with Erez Dessel: keyboards, Lily Finnegan: drums, Beth […]

8:00 pm
Edition XL (Berman, Dessel, Finnigan, Macri, McDonald, Vandermark)
Edition XL is a new ensemble built on the foundation of Ken Vandermark’s critically acclaimed band, Edition Redux (with Erez Dessel: keyboards, Lily Finnegan: drums, Beth […]

8:00 pm
Edition XL (Berman, Dessel, Finnigan, Macri, McDonald, Vandermark)
Edition XL is a new ensemble built on the foundation of Ken Vandermark’s critically acclaimed band, Edition Redux (with Erez Dessel: keyboards, Lily Finnegan: drums, Beth […]

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Studio Work
[photo of Ken Vandermark and Chris Felver by John Corbett] Two days were spent at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago this week, each focusing on different aspects of documenting […]

Discussion with Furkan Çolak
Furkan Çolak, a member of the Noesis Collective of musicians and artists based in Ankara, Turkey, recently got in touch to interview me. The discussion was in-depth and far […]

Edition XL concert update
[left to right: Erez Dessel, Nick Macri, Lily Finnegan] Back in February, work with the sextet Edition XL began. As you can tell from these rehearsal photos taken in March […]
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Musician (improviser/composer) who plays saxophones and clarinets, and works with a variety of styles and artists.