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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Author: Ken Vandermark
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 […]
Read moreAfter and Before
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 […]
Read moreWhat 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 & […]
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