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

Sun 06 September Sep

10:00 pm

Corsano/Han Jones/Vandermark Trio: Sound & Gravity Festival, Hungry Brain, Chicago, IL [sold out]

Due to health issues that need immediate attention, Joe McPhee is unable to travel at the moment. Though concerts planned for the trio of Joe, Chris Corsano, and Ken Vandermark in Cincinnati, […]

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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