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Category: Observations

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

Posted on June 10, 2025 by 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 […]

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

Posted on April 27, 2025 by Ken Vandermark
Damon 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’ […]

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Svetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 2

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

[photo by Can Inandim; left to right: Deni Omeragić, Paal Nilssen-Love, Ken Vandermark, Nino Spirovski, Kiko Novkovski, and Vladan Drobicki] Following a second rehearsal with […]

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Svetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 1

Posted on April 14, 2025 by Ken Vandermark
Svetlost w/Nilssen-Love & Vandermark pt. 1

Rehearsals with Deni Omeragić, Kiko Novkovski (pictured above), and Nino Spirovski of Svetlost began in Skopje on April 13th.  We were able to work through four out of […]

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Edition XL: next steps

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Ken Vandermark
Edition XL: next steps

Very happy to be working with (left to right) Erez Dessel, Nick Macri, Lily Finnegan; and Beth McDonald, Josh Berman on the ensemble project, Edition XL. I began composing for […]

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What Would Ellington Do? Pt. 2

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Ken Vandermark
What Would Ellington Do? Pt. 2

What Would Ellington Do? Pt. 2: As the work continues on composing for Edition XL- a new project with Josh Berman, Erez Dessel, Lily Finnegan, Nick Macri, and Beth McDonald- […]

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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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