Results for "Ken Vandermark"

A Fireside Chat With Ken Vandermark

by AAJ Staff
April 17, 2003

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
May 1, 2002

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

By Ken Vandermark

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
December 1, 1999

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 ...

Utility Hitter

By Ken Vandermark

Label: Dreamusic
Released: 1996

Standards

By Ken Vandermark

Label: Dreamusic
Released: 1995