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), 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

Sat 26 July Jul

7:00 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 […]

The Jazz Estate
Sat 26 July Jul

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 […]

The Jazz Estate
Fri 01 August Aug

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 […]

The Green Mill
Sat 02 August Aug

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 […]

The Green Mill

Latest Releases

Album: Medicine Kit

Medicine Kit

Terri Kapsalis, Damon Locks, Ken Vandermark

Album: Broadcast Transformer

Broadcast Transformer

Edition Redux

Album: This Is Not A Holiday!

This Is Not A Holiday!

Terrie Ex & Ken Vandermark

Album: Koniec

Koniec

Sebastiaan Janssen, Hubert Kostkiewicz, Ken Vandermark & Marta Warelis

Album: Better A Rook Than A Pawn

Better A Rook Than A Pawn

Edition Redux

Album: Distant Cousins

Distant Cousins

Paul Lytton & Ken Vandermark

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Recent Posts

Studio Work
Studio Work

[photo of Ken Vandermark and Chris Felver by John Corbett] Two days were spent at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago this week, each focusing on different aspects of documenting […]

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Discussion with Furkan Çolak
Discussion with Furkan Çolak

Furkan Çolak, a member of the Noesis Collective of musicians and artists based in Ankara, Turkey, recently got in touch to interview me.  The discussion was in-depth and far […]

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Edition XL concert update
Edition XL concert update

[left to right: Erez Dessel, Nick Macri, Lily Finnegan] Back in February, work with the sextet Edition XL began.  As you can tell from these rehearsal photos taken in March […]

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