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
3:00 pm
Kapsalis/Locks/Vandermark: Medicine Kit listening party and record launch
Medicine Kit is a recorded sound piece based on Terri’s reading of her 84 page essay, Jane Addams’ Travel Medicine Kit, and features Damon Locks on sampler/electronics […]
7:00 am
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 […]
Latest Releases
Medicine Kit
Terri Kapsalis, Damon Locks, Ken Vandermark
Broadcast Transformer
Edition Redux
This Is Not A Holiday!
Terrie Ex & Ken Vandermark
Koniec
Sebastiaan Janssen, Hubert Kostkiewicz, Ken Vandermark & Marta Warelis
Better A Rook Than A Pawn
Edition Redux
Distant Cousins
Paul Lytton & Ken Vandermark
Recent Posts
After and Before
[NRG Ensemble photo by John Corbett (left to right: Fred Lonberg-Holm, Kent Kessler, Steve Hunt, Brian Sandstrom, Dave Rempis, Ken Vandermark)] In John Yau’s brilliant book, […]
What will be, will be- Sly Stone is gone.
No other musician aside from Miles Davis and Duke Ellington had such a long-term creative impact on me. Since I was a child, I’ve listened to all their work. Then […]
Prime Cuts #4: “Love Power Peace” (Polydor, 1992), James Brown
This series of essays, that explore the ideas of sequencing and montage between two pieces of recorded music or two film scenes, continues with another one of my favorite albums: […]
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Musician (improviser/composer) who plays saxophones and clarinets, and works with a variety of styles and artists.
![In John Yau’s brilliant book, “A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns” (Distributed Art Publishers: 2008), Yau often brings up the idea that Johns flipped the conventional idea of chronology as “before and after” to “after and before”, putting the viewer into a space to experience “now”: after something has taken place and before the next occurs. I have frequently thought about this idea following the back-to-back experience of performing with a version of the NRG Ensemble in Chicago then concerts with Mabel Kwan and the quintet of Kory Cook, Matthew Frerk, Stefan González, Jonathan Horne in Austin during May.
[Link to complete article at kenvandermark.com in bio.]
(NRG Ensemble by John Corbett [left to right: Fred Lonberg-Holm, Kent Kessler, Steve Hunt, Brian Sandstrom, Dave Rempis, Ken Vandermark], Mabel Kwan and Ken Vandermark by Pedro Merino, “Texas Quintet” by Derek Rogers [left to right: Jonathan Horne, Stefan Gonzalez, Ken Vandermark, Kory Cook, Matthew Frerck])
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