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), New York’s Downtown scene (Ikue Mori), 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.
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To Begin, Again: A Festival of Experimental Music (day 2)
Two Nights of Jazz and Improvised Music @ 701CCACurated by Tim Daisy To Begin, Again is a two-day festival of jazz and improvised music, highlighting the vast array of world-class […]
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Ken Vandermark presents The Field Kitchen Uptown Orchestra & Poets
The “Ken Vandermark plays Field Kitchen/Field Kitchen plays Ken Vandermark” collaboration that began with two concerts in Detroit during June expands to performances by “The Field Kitchen Uptown Orchestra & […]
8:00 pm
Ken Vandermark presents The Field Kitchen Uptown Orchestra & Poets
The “Ken Vandermark plays Field Kitchen/Field Kitchen plays Ken Vandermark” collaboration that began with two concerts in Detroit during June expands to performances by “The Field Kitchen Uptown Orchestra & […]
Latest Recordings & Releases
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October Flowers for Joe McPhee
Ken Vandermark
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El Infierno Musical II
Christof Kurzmann, Katinka Kleijn, Lia Kohl, Dave Rempis, Ken Vandermark
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Pivot
Mats Gustafsson, Tomeka Reid, Chad Taylor, Ken Vandermark
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Fourth Atlas
Ken Vandermark & Tim Daisy
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Broadcast Transformer
Edition Redux
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This Is Not A Holiday!
Terrie Ex & Ken Vandermark
Recent Posts
New Detroit Recording Session: June 19, 2026
Ben Hall has called it a residency, and that seems true. Since I got to Detroit on Sunday, June 14th, the time has been filled with rehearsals, performances, recording sessions, […]
Experiments 2026: #3 & #4/work with Ben Hall
Experiments 2026: #3 & #4/work with Ben Hall. 2026 has included a number of shifts in creative strategy for me. Starting in reverse from this spring to the beginning of […]
Living Poets Society
Mixing material with Nick Broste by a sextet with Beth McDonald (tuba/electronics), Erez Dessel (keyboards), Josh Berman (cornet), Lily Finnegan (drums), and Nick Macri (acoustic/electric bass); with readings by poets […]
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Musician (improviser/composer) who plays saxophones and clarinets, and works with a variety of styles and artists.
