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Edition XL & poets at The Green Mill: night one

Posted on August 2, 2025 by Ken Vandermark

Edition XL and the poets Ed Roberson, Ken Taylor, and Kai Ihns will be back at The Green Mill tonight- Saturday, August 2nd, at 8pm- for our second series of […]

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Edition XL with poets Ed Roberson, Kai Ihns, and Ken Taylor

Posted on August 1, 2025 by Ken Vandermark

Announcing two special nights of music and poetry in Chicago!  On Friday and Saturday, August 1st and 2nd, the new ensemble, Edition XL, will make its Chicago debut at The […]

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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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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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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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Recording “October Flowers for Joe McPhee”

Posted on March 18, 2025 by Ken Vandermark
Recording "October Flowers for Joe McPhee"

On the evening of March 17th one of the most significant recording sessions of my career took place.  It was held at the Corbett vs. Dempsey gallery in front of […]

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  • IN ROTATION & IN ADDITION: Winter 2024-Summer 2025
  • Edition XL & poets at The Green Mill: night one
  • Edition XL with poets Ed Roberson, Kai Ihns, and Ken Taylor
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  • Back To ESS To Work With Corbett vs. Dempsey

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