Jazz Articles about Ken Vandermark

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Ab Baars Trio / Ken Vandermark: Goofy June Bug

by Jeff Stockton
September 5, 2008

Ab Baars is a major figure in the Dutch jazz scene, having played with Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink in their Instant Composers Pool for more than 25 years. Ken Vandermark has been the driving organizational force behind the fertile jazz community of Chicago for the better part of the last two decades, leading any number of bands and bringing together improvisers in the City of Wind with like-minded players throughout Europe and Scandinavia. So in spite ...

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Vandermark 5: Beat Reader

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 27, 2008

La notizia, vale la pena sottolinearlo fin dalla prima riga, è che i Vandermark 5 sembrano aver finalmente e definitivamente elaborato il “lutto” per la perdita di Jeb Bishop. Defezione imprevista e piuttosto problematica, anche perchè l’uscita dal gruppo nel 2005 del trombonista-chitarrista, rimpiazzato dal violoncellista Fred Lonberg-Holm, ha comportato un cambio di formazione che, a differenza delle partenze di Tim Mulvenna e Mars Williams, sostituiti dagli omologhi Tim Daisy e Dave Rempis, ha implicato un radicale riassetto del quintetto. ...

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Ken Vandermark: Vandermark 5, Free Fall, Sonore & Territory Band

by Clifford Allen
April 6, 2008

Reedman, composer and bandleader Ken Vandermark is an artist not only of diverse talents--he's a tireless organizer and fulcrum of numerous scenes both in his adopted hometown of Chicago as well as western Europe--but also a diversifier of his talents. In the past decade and a half, his arsenal of saxophones and clarinets and his compositional book have been spread across a staggering array of ensembles, from duos to orchestras.Some of these projects have had a specific goal ...

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The Thing with Ken Vandermark and Two Bands & A Legend: Collaborative Furies

by Eyal Hareuveni
December 1, 2007

Swedish/Norwegian power trio The Thing--featuring Mats Gusatfsson on saxophones and the colossal rhythm section of Ingebrigt Håker Flaten on bass and Paal Nilssen-Love on drums--like to enlist additional players who will bring further energy to their already dense dynamics. American saxophone hero Joe McPhee, or “the Legend" as the group refer to him, has been an honorary member since he played on their second release, She Knows (Crazy Wisdom, 2002). Over the years, the band also joined forces with Italian ...

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Territory Band: Collide

by Mark Corroto
November 10, 2007

Collide is Ken Vandermark's sixth release for his transatlantic small big band (or is it a large small group?) of American jazz meets European improvisers. Unlike the prior sessions, this disc is comprised of a single composition, divided into five parts.

The Territory Band has, at its core, players who execute Vandermark's writing with a satisfying proportion of improvised and ensemble playing that has as its contemporaries bands like the Brötzmann Tentet, the ICP Orchestra, and ...

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Ken Vandermark: Rebus, Foreground Music and Journal

by A. Henkin
September 8, 2007

Joe Morris/Ken Vandermark/Luther Gray Rebus Clean Feed 2007 Ken Vandermark/Pandelis Karayorgis Foreground Music Okkadisk 2007 Bridge 61 Journal Atavistic 2006

In the Daniel Kraus documentary on Ken Vandermark, the saxophonist is shown writing music, organizing tours, traveling to and playing gigs, the typical ...

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Ken Vandermark - Magnus Broo - Adam Lane - Paal Nilssen-Love: 4 Corners

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 23, 2007

La collaborazione tra Ken Vandermark e il contrabbassista Adam Lane - qui catturata dal vivo a Coimbra, Portogallo - si iscrive di diritto tra le più vivaci esplorazioni di quel terreno di confine tra il jazz più libero e la tensione ritmica di matrice punk-rock. Zone in cui band come i The Thing o anche i nostri Zu [con le dovute differenze] si muovono da consumati predoni, ma che nel caso di questo quartetto, sviluppa ulteriori strategie. Già il fatto ...