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Category: Notes from the field

After and Before

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Ken Vandermark
NRG Ensemble photo by John Corbett (left to right: Fred Lonberg-Holm, Kent Kessler, Steve Hunt, Brian Sandstrom, Dave Rempis, Ken Vandermark)

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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Posted in Notes from the field, Performances

What will be, will be- Sly Stone is gone.

Posted on June 10, 2025 by Ken Vandermark

 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 […]

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Posted in Notes from the field, Observations

Svetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 4

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Ken Vandermark
Paal Nilssen-Love and Kiko Novkovski

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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Posted in Notes from the field, Performances

Damon Locks: “We Are Our People/Listen To This” exhibition at Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago

Posted on April 27, 2025 by Ken Vandermark

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’ […]

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Posted in Notes from the field, Observations

Svetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 3

Posted on April 20, 2025 by Ken Vandermark
Vladan Drobicki and Kiko Novkovski

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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Posted in Notes from the field, Performances, Recordings

Svetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 2

Posted on April 16, 2025 by Ken Vandermark
Svetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 2

Following a second rehearsal with Deni Omeragić, Nino Spirovski, and Kiko Novkovski on Monday afternoon, Paal Nilssen-Love joined the project on Tuesday after flying from Chicago […]

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Recent Posts

  • After and Before
  • What will be, will be- Sly Stone is gone.
  • Prime Cuts #4: “Love Power Peace” (Polydor, 1992), James Brown
  • Svetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 4
  • Damon Locks: “We Are Our People/Listen To This” exhibition at Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago

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