Results for "Ken Vandermark Resonance Ensemble"

Ken Vandermark Resonance Ensemble

Double Arc

By Ken Vandermark Resonance Ensemble

Label: Not Two Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: ARC ONE 1: Section A; Section B; Section C; Section D; Section E; Section F; Section G; Section H; ARC TWO: Section A; Section B; Section C; Section D; Section E;Section F.

Ken Vandermark Resonance Ensemble: Double Arc

by Mark Corroto
December 1, 2015

For the most part, we only follow the trajectory of an artist's career many years after his work has been completed. Looking back at the career of Miles Davis, you can now play connect-the-dots from bebop to Gil Evans to modal jazz to electric Miles. Certainly, back in the day, many a listener knew not where ...

Head Above Water / Feet Out Of The Fire

By Ken Vandermark Resonance Ensemble

Label: Not Two Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: CD 1 Head Above Water: Creative Reconstruction Company [for Muhal Richard Abrams]; Elegy For Two Rooms [for Fred Anderson and Von Freeman]; Type A [for Michael Orlove]; CD 2 Feet Out Of The Fire): FSA Color [for Thomas Bernhard]; Lipstick in Hi-Fi [for Jean-Luc Godard]; The Other Shore [for Robert Irving]; Watch Repair [for Michael Haneke].

Ken Vandermark Resonance Ensemble: Head Above Water / Feet Out Of The Fire

by Mark Corroto
March 9, 2014

Listening to the music Ken Vandermark writes for large ensembles do we dare compare him to Duke Ellington? Both band leaders and composers wrote and arranged music to be played by a select troupe of musicians and both suffered the fate of surfing the knife edge of innovation. Ellington always seemed to be delivering scores with ...