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The Engines: The Engines
by Mark Corroto
Chicago is indeed a city of big shoulders. Great architecture, huge pizza, and musicians with heavyweight sound. Think of Buddy Guy, Gene Ammons, Lester Bowie, and Fred Anderson to name just a few. Pretension has never been an ingredient of their music. When four of Chicago's sons got together to form a band called ...
Joe McPhee / Peter Br: Guts
by Lyn Horton
When people die for what they believe in, their actions speak louder than words. At least for a moment. Repeat performances of their deaths are impossible. So it is up to those who survive them to revitalize the symbolism of their deaths. Creative people do this well in the form of a tribute, for they are ...
Peter Br
by Mark Corroto
The milestones of the 66 year old German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann's career are a useful device by which to review his prolific and passionate music making. From early experiments with Alexander von Schlippenbach and the Globe Unity Orchestra, he gained jazz infamy with an octet recording called Machine Gun (FMP, 1968). Aptly named, the unrelenting surge ...
Company Switch
Label: Okka Disk
Released: 2006
Track listing: Killing Floor; Reverse One; Franja; Vertical 8; Reverse Two; Local Works.
Cinc
By Paul Lytton
Label: Okka Disk
Released: 2006
Track listing: Poitiers 3; Ljubljana 2; Ljubljana 3; Ljubljana 4; Ljubljana 6.
New Horse For The White House
Label: Okka Disk
Released: 2006
Track listing: CD1: Studio Volume 1: Fall With A Vengence (for Park Chanwook); Untitled Fiction (for
Charles Mingus). CD2: Studio Volume 2: Corrosion (for Barnett Newmann); Cards (for Jorge
Luis Borges). CD3: "Live" Radio: Fall With A Vengence (Live); Untitled Fiction (Live);
Corrosion (Live); Cards (Live).
Territory Band-5: New Horse For The White House
by Mark Corroto
You can certainly find plenty of heady intellectual discussion surrounding Ken Vandermark's Territory Band. He has taken the concepts of jazz and European music and interlaced them with composed and improvised music. (Was that last statement redundant?) In doing so, Vandermark continues the argument begun the day Louis Armstrong played a familiar march “his own way." ...
Paul Lytton / Ken Vandermark / Philipp Wachsmann: Cinc
by Kurt Gottschalk
Chicago saxophonist Ken Vandermark is about as well known as a jazz fan as he is a jazz musician. With a breakneck release schedule (two discs is a slow year for him), he has found time to compose and lead his own bands while paying respect to his elders: tribute albums to Sonny Rollins, Rahsaan Roland ...
Territory Band: Company Switch
by Rex Butters
Ken Vandermark's fourth collection with the Territory Band, Company Switch, continues to mine ideas too big for the Vandermark 5. Lasse Marhaug, who replaces Kevin Drumm on electronics, seems more inclined to contribute color and texture to the ensemble's experimentation. Given Vandermark's imagination and the assembly of musicians, sparks fly and vast amounts of musical landscape ...
