Musician & Composer

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.

Calendar

Mon 13 July Jul

7:00 pm

Lexington, Kentucky: VDMA quartet with Ishmael Ali/Tim Daisy/Allen Moore/Ken Vandermark

A concert featuring a set of short solo performances followed by a set of improvised music by the first time quartet of Ishmael Ali (cello), Tim Daisy (drums), Allen Moore […]

Thu 16 July Jul

7:00 pm

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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Latest Recordings & 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