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News: Performance / Tour

Ken Vandermark Resonance Band October 2009 European Tour

October 13, 2009

Oct. 19 :: Krakow - Alchemia, Krakow, Poland (small groups) Oct. 20 :: Krakow - Alchemia, Krakow, Poland (small groups) Oct. 21 :: Krakow - Manggha Hall (Resonance band) Oct. 23 :: Cormons, Italy (Resonance band) Oct. 24 :: Szekesfehervar, Hungary (Resonance band) Oct. 25 :: ...

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Article: Album Review

The Frame Quartet: 35mm

by Troy Collins
October 7, 2009

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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Rodrigo Amado: The Abstract Truth

Read "The Abstract Truth" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
September 29, 2009

Saxophonist Rodrigo Amado, bassist Kent Kessler, and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love is an international trio featuring players from Portugal, United States and Norway, respectively. But on its second recording, The Abstract Truth, the assemblage speaks the same language; its mother tongue being hard-hitting, concise improvisation. This disc follows the Teatro (European Echoes, 2006), the trio's ...

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Article: Album Review

Ken Vandermark / Barry Guy / Mark Sanders: Fox Fire

Read "Fox Fire" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
September 24, 2009

The audience has been removed from these live concerts, recorded in 2008 in Birmingham and Leeds, featuring American reedman Ken Vandermark alongside British drummer Mark Sanders and bassist Barry Guy. Despite the constraints of a short, five-day UK tour of only six concerts, there's much to savor in the resulting two discs, for connoisseurs of creative ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Ken Vandermark

September 22, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Ken Vandermark's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Ken VandermarkFor the past 20 years, Ken Vandermark has been exploring and working to expand the possibilities of improvised and composed music in North America and Europe. Since moving to Chicago from Boston in 1989... ...

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Article: Live From New York

September 2009

by AAJ Staff
September 12, 2009

Jenny ScheinmanLe Poisson RougeNew York City August 4, 2009The chameleon-like but ever electric Nels Cline seemed at first to be an unusual partner for violinist Jenny Scheinman, but if anything the guitarist knows how to make things work and he pushed the quartet (with bassist Matt Penman and drummer Jim ...

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Article: Live Review

Eric Revis Quartet at the Jazz Gallery: Old-Time Rhythms

by Eric Benson
September 10, 2009

Eric Revis QuartetJazz GalleryNew York, NYAugust 28, 2009 I don't imagine the Eric Revis Quartet was assembled with reconciliation in mind, but to a hobbled veteran of the Jazz Wars--the squabbles and skirmishes over the music's boundaries that raged throughout the '80s, '90s, and early aughts--the lineup would look like an ...

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Article: Music and the Creative Spirit

Tim Berne: The Subliminal Explorations of a Creative Mind

by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
August 5, 2009

Fascinated by unconventional and complex ideas, saxophonist and composer Tim Berne has become a creative force, exploring all the possibilities in sound through his fearless and brilliant imagination. Lloyd Peterson: You didn't start playing the sax until you were about twenty. That would take quite a bit of confidence.Tim Berne: I didn't ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Ken Vandermark: Collected Fiction (Improvised Bass & Reed Duos) & Fire Room: Broken Music

by Marc Medwin
August 3, 2009

Ken VandermarkCollected Fiction (Improvised Bass & Reed Duos)Okkadisk2008 Fire RoomBroken MusicAtavistic2008 Saxophonist Ken Vandermark has made a career of placing himself in diverse company, whether as a leader or as ...

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Article: Album Review

Orjan Hulten Trio: In the City

Read "In the City" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard
July 27, 2009

History reveals a long list of venues that have contributed positively to the recorded legacy of some of the greatest figures in jazz. Names such as The Cotton Club, The Village Vanguard, Slug's Saloon, Shelly's Manne-Hole and Bradley's carry their own aura, which is inextricably linked to the magic of the music performed by legends like ...