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 […]
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Author: Ken Vandermark
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 […]
Read morePrime 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: […]
Read moreSvetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 4
After arriving in Skopje, Macedonia on April 12th to begin work with Svetlost (Kiko Novkovski [drums], Deni Omeragić [electric bass], and Nino Spirovski [Bb clarinet, tenor & […]
Read moreDamon Locks: “We Are Our People/Listen To This” exhibition at Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago
Thankful to be back in Chicago after the project with Svetlost and Paal Nilssen-Love (more on the second half of that tour shortly) and in time to see Damon Locks’ […]
Read moreSvetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 3
After a strong second concert in Sofia, Bulgaria at Club Singles on Thursday night, which pulled the new material into sharper focus, the group set up and recorded […]
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