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Ken Vandermark Predella Group: Strade d'Acqua / Roads of Water

Read "Strade d'Acqua / Roads of Water" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Prolific composer/saxophonist Ken Vandermark's first soundtrack Project, Strade d'Acqua / Roads of Water, brings together his multiple interests and sound designs, creating a work for the film by Augusto Contento. It can exists as a standalone album, separate from the film, without commentary.Recorded in 2008, Vandermark's Predella Group reunites trombonist Jeb Bishop--an original member of the Vandermark 5--with the leader, as well as his replacement, cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm. For this work, Vandermark arranges the sound in a sparse ...

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Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet: 3 Days in Oslo

Read "Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet: 3 Days in Oslo" reviewed by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.


We live during a time when society needs music in boxes, connected with dots; music that can be readily explained and even more readily understood. But Peter Brotzmann tears down the walls, rips apart the boxes and completely shatters any preconceived notions of what music is supposed to be. He understands the necessity of art being able to express from the soul and spirit of the artist, and that is a freedom fought for, one that is intensely fought for. ...

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Vandermark 5: Annular Gift

Read "Annular Gift" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Parlando di Ken Vandermark si rischia a volte di ripetersi, specialmente quando si sottolinea - ed è sempre doveroso farlo - quanto il suo lavoro riesca sempre a muoversi con altissima qualità nell'esplorazione dei linguaggi contemporanei che tentano di sintetizzare creativamente il lessico afroamericano degli ultimi cinquant'anni. In questo senso il percorso dei Vandermark 5 è probabilmente quello più emblematico, per la continuità dell'esperienza e la capacità di riformulare costantemente i parametri espressivi del quintetto. Da qualche anno la cosiddetta ...

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The Frame Quartet: 35mm

Read "35mm" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Nella musica di Ken Vandermark il rapporto con le altre arti [cinema, danza, architettura, arti visive], spesso dichiarato nelle dediche che usualmente accompagnano i titoli delle composizioni del multistrumentista, ha sempre avuto la capacità di innescare delle discorsività a più livelli. Ben lontani dall'ammiccante coolness di tanti progetti che - a vario titolo - abbinano jazz e “altro," in Vandermark confluiscono [e si creano] differenti strati dialettici, dalla semplice suggestione espressiva all'incrocio di modalità formali o alla riflessione sulla componente ...

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Ken Vandermark - Barry Guy - Mark Sanders: Fox Fire

Read "Fox Fire" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Tra le caratteristiche che rendono il sassofonista e clarinettista Ken Vandermark un musicista unico nel panorama jazz/impro di oggi, c'è sicuramente la sua capacità - frutto di umiltà e intelligenza - di frequentare gli ambiti più differenti con un'attitudine dialettica mobile, in grado di innestare a più livelli felicissimi cortocircuiti espressivi con le tradizioni della pratica improvvisativi. Accanto a progetti ritmicamente più caratterizzati, eccolo anche protagonista di lavori di pura e libera improvvisazione, come in questo trio “inglese" con il ...

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Vandermark 5: Annular Gift

Read "Annular Gift" reviewed by Troy Collins


Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and bandleader Ken Vandermark has led his flagship ensemble, the Vandermark 5, through a decade's worth of personnel changes. Despite the band's rotating roster, the ensemble's sound has remained remarkably consistent. A powerhouse unit capable of serene delicacy as well as unfettered intensity, the quintet has won a legion of fans the world over for its uncompromising vision of contemporary creative improvised music. The current line-up has been active for three years now, documented on two ...

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The Frame Quartet: 35mm

Read "35mm" reviewed by Troy Collins


Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist, composer and bandleader Ken Vandermark is widely known for paying homage to artists of various disciplines, regularly including dedications in his song titles to those who have inspired him. On 35mm, the studio debut of his newest ensemble, The Frame Quartet, Vandermark reveals his longstanding debt to cinema, not only in name, but in approach. Filmmaking is an intensely collaborative medium, and The Frame Quartet embraces this concept implicitly; Vandermark is the sole writer, yet each ...


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