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Furniture Music
Label: Okka Disk
Released: 2004
Track listing: Resistance/ Horizontal Weight/ So Is This/ Lines/ Immediate Action/ Panels/ Color Fields To Darkness/ Would a Proud Man Rather Break Than Bend/ Beck and Fall/ Melodica/ Indeterminate Action/ Leaves/ br
Ken Vandermark: Radiale, Gambit, and Elements of Style, Exercises in Surprise
by Jeff Stockton
Ken Vandermark continues to issue recordings at a wildly prolific rate, yet for all the similarities, each one of his projects offers something different. And while charting the genealogy of his collaborative relationships can be like figuring out who is brother to whom on a soap opera, the crucial member of the two trios under consideration ...
Vandermark x2
by Derek Taylor
Surf by Ken Vandermark's website and you'll find evidence of a cottage industry. The industrious Chicagoan continues a relentless pace of touring and recording, releasing a generous handful of discs with each passing year. What's equally impressive about his activities is the number of people on board behind his grand designs. Myriad labels including Okkadisk , ...
A Fireside Chat with The Vandermark 5
by AAJ Staff
Although The Vandermark 5 bears his name, Ken Vandermark is practical enough to realize V5's success should be credited to members Jeb Bishop, Tim Daisy, Kent Kessler, and Dave Rempis. For it is their commitment and loyalty that allows V5 to be a seasoned quintet unlike any other in modern music. V5's popularity obscures musical genres, ...
Ken Vandermark: Furniture Music
by Derek Taylor
The title of Ken Vandermark’s new (and first) solo album connotes a certain sort of familiarity through its imbedded analogy: the conception of music as something functional and reassuring that can become a regular part of one’s personal landscape. Rest assured though, this isn’t your father’s favorite easy chair, or his most treasured Bing Crosby record ...
A Fireside Chat With Ken Vandermark
by AAJ Staff
Improvised music post-Wynton has been a barren wasteland of record company manufactured 'young lions' or all-star jam sessions. All have done nothing to advance the music, but instead have relegated improvisation to historical overviews. Being a card-carrying member of Gen X, I have no interest is hearing, much less seeing, how well someone can play a ...
Branford & Ellis Marsalis: The Dawn of Marsalis Music
by Mark Corroto
The first family of jazz, the Marsalis of New Orleans, have seemingly been in the eye of a musical hurricane for the past twenty years. With the news that Saxophonist Branford Marsalis and his father Ellis Marsalis had severed their ties with Sony music, comes the announcement that they have formed the independent label Marsalis Music. ...
Design In Time
Label: Delmark Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Law Years/ Sounds and Something Else/ One More Once/ Well Suited/ Cut to Fit/ Angels/ Feet Music/ The Thing/ Top Shelf/ Green Chimneys/ Peace.
Recorded: July 6 & 7, 1999, Airwave Studios, Chicago, IL.
Ken Vandermark's Sound In Action Trio: Design In Time
by Derek Taylor
Sound in action. These three words speak volumes about this trio’s trust in the currencies of movement and momentum. One look at the instrumentation and it’s obvious that the rhythmic possibilities for the group go well beyond the parameters prescribed by usual jazz instrumentation. Two drum kits, one reed; but not just any two drummers and ...
