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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Damon Locks & Ken Vandermark: University of Wisconsin Parkside Jazz Week, Kenosha, Wisconsin
Damon Locks (electronics) and Ken Vandermark (reeds) will present a free concert of their duo music at Jazz Week at the University of Wisconsin Parkside and be part of a […]
Latest Releases
October Flowers for Joe McPhee
Ken Vandermark
El Infierno Musical II
Christof Kurzmann, Katinka Kleijn, Lia Kohl, Dave Rempis, Ken Vandermark
Pivot
Mats Gustafsson, Tomeka Reid, Chad Taylor, Ken Vandermark
Fourth Atlas
Ken Vandermark & Tim Daisy
Broadcast Transformer
Edition Redux
This Is Not A Holiday!
Terrie Ex & Ken Vandermark
Recent Posts
Prime Cuts #5: To Live and Die in L.A. & Weekend
William Friedkin was an extraordinary film director. The French Connection (1971) is one of my favorite movies and Sorcerer (1977) and To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) are […]
Collaborators in 2025
Gigs with the DKV Trio concluded the music of 2025 for me, and I’d like to thank the people I was able to collaborate with last year. All of you […]
Edition Redux: OCT-LOFT Jazz Festival, Shenzhen, China, October 2025
12/23/25: On the 26th and 27th of December I’ll be playing my last concerts of the year, as always with the DKV Trio at Elastic Arts. Exactly two months ago […]
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Musician (improviser/composer) who plays saxophones and clarinets, and works with a variety of styles and artists.
