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Beth McDonald

Beth grew up as part of a large family in Harford County, MD, just North of Baltimore. She began writing music and poetry as a small child and studied piano and violin through high school. Beth earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Psychology from the University of Baltimore, worked for several years in the nonprofit sector coordinating volunteer programs for the Mental Health Association and a local Hospice, and then left the work force to become a stay-at-home mother to two boys. She was (accidentally? divinely?) "discovered" and asked to front a jazz band. From there she went on to record many albums containing a combination of jazz standards and original material

Broadcast Transformer

By Edition Redux

Label: Audiographic Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Other Nichols Other Dimes (for Herbie Nichols and The Minutemen) / Salto (for Jacob Lawrence) / Pony Up (for Rebecca Morris); Autochrome (for Faith Ringgold) / Scratch Vocal (for Scratch Acid) / Clockwise (for Peter Greenaway) / Velocity Dub (for Joel Sternfeld); Text Tile/Entre Chien Et Loup/Slate Arrangement/Shinkansen Dream; Winged Jaguar (for Bill Dixon and Cecil Taylor) / Flipside (for Diane Arbus and Lisette Model) / Five Dollars In A $3 World (for Lester Bowie).

Sound & Gravity: Chicago's New Home For Poignant Creative Music

by Hrayr Attarian
September 23, 2025

The inaugural 2025 edition of the ambitious Sound & Gravity Festival took place from September 10th through September 14th at seven different venues on Chicago's Northwest Side. Over 50 musicians, from several countries, performed works spanning genres from contemporary Western classical to jazz, experimental music, and indie rock. The not-for-profit Constellation Performing Arts, which drummer Mike ...

Edition Redux: Broadcast Transformer

by Mark Corroto
February 15, 2025

Ken Vandermark has long made it a priority to dedicate nearly all of his compositions to other artists. From painters and photographers to writers, poets and fellow musicians, his influences span a wide artistic spectrum. Film, in particular, has been a significant source of inspiration for this long-time Chicago resident. While Vandermark has composed two commissioned ...

Ken Vandermark’s Edition Redux at BOP STOP at The Music Settlement

by John Chacona
March 10, 2024

Ken Vandermark's Edition Redux BOP STOP at The Music Settlement Cleveland, OH February 27, 2024 Every jazz concert brings an experience that you've never had before and likely weren't expecting. In the case of the Cleveland concert by protean saxophonist Ken Vandermark's Edition Redux, the source was a new Apple Watch ...

Ken Vandermark: Returning To The Road With A New Band And New Energy

by John Chacona
April 26, 2023

For three decades, Ken Vandermark has criss-crossed the globe as one of music's most restless and exploratory improvisors. Yet as he embarked on a tour in Spring 2023, his improvisatory skills were put to the test--not as a musician, but as a bandleader and organizer. He assembled a new band, Edition 55, that includes ...

Solo/Duo

By Eli Wallace

Label: Eschatology Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Solo; Duo.

Two Views of Beth McDonald

by C. Michael Bailey
February 14, 2009

With singer/songwriter Beth McDonald, music is intensely personal. All aspects of music--performance, composition, arrangement, song choice and delivery--are branded with McDonald's vision. Her liner notes are full of mention of her family, motherhood and love. Her style is 1920s-1940s standards waxing nostalgic (yet still freshly modern) of the simpler, more wholesome things in life. This feeling ...