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.
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
Update: November 9, 2025
About to embark on a tour in Europe with Paal Nilssen-Love and organized by him. This means lots of intense and inspiring music (13 concerts), lots of traveling (8 […]
IN ROTATION & IN ADDITION: Winter 2024-Summer 2025
I like to keep track of the ideas and work in this journal as a reference to what has influenced and affected me over time. Alongside the collaborations I am […]
Edition XL & poets at The Green Mill: night one
Edition XL and the poets Ed Roberson, Ken Taylor, and Kai Ihns will be back at The Green Mill tonight- Saturday, August 2nd, at 8pm- for our second series of […]
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Musician (improviser/composer) who plays saxophones and clarinets, and works with a variety of styles and artists.
