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Ken Vandermark

For 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, he's performed and recorded in a variety of contexts, and with many internationally renowned musicians. Past groups of significance include the NRG Ensemble, the DKV Trio, AALY, FME, the Vandermark Quartet, Spaceways Inc., School Days, Cinghiale, Witches & Devils, Steam, and Caffeine. Currently, the majority of his work as a composer and improviser has been directed toward the Vandermark 5, Powerhouse Sound, the Frame Quartet, the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, Sonore, and separate duos with the percussionists Tim Daisy and Paal Nilssen-Love, the Territory Band, CINC, and Free Fall. Upcoming projects include iTi (with Johannes Bauer, Thomas Lehn, Paal Nilssen-Love), Lean Left (with Terrie Ex, Andy Moor, Paal Nilssen Love), a collaboration with the group ZU, and the Resonance Ensemble (an international group featuring ten musicians from Poland, Sweden, the Ukraine, and the United States).

In addition to creating music, Ken has made many significant and highly respected contributions to both the local and international jazz/improvised music scenes through organizing concerts in Chicago and sponsoring North American tours with various ensembles. In 1996, he and writer John Corbett began organizing the Empty Bottle “Wednesday Night Jazz Series,” concerts that brought musicians from Chicago, North America, and Europe to audiences on a weekly basis for nearly a decade

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Upcoming

Date Detail Price
Oct24Thu
Ken Vandermark
Klub Alchemia
Krakow, Poland
Jan17Fri
„3 Tage Jazz“ Saalfelden 17. – 19....
Kunsthaus Nexus
Saalfelden, Austria 		€35
Jan18Sat
„3 Tage Jazz“ Saalfelden 17. – 19....
Kunsthaus Nexus
Saalfelden, Austria 		€35
Jan19Sun
„3 Tage Jazz“ Saalfelden 17. – 19....
Kunsthaus Nexus
Saalfelden, Austria 		€55

Discography

Momentum 4: Consequent Duos 2015>2019 (Box Set)

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Audiographic Records
2019

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F4 Fake

F4 Fake

Trost Records
2019

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Noise Of Our Time

Noise Of Our Time

Intakt Records
2018

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Roadwork 1/Roadwork2/Homework1 (Box Set)

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Audiographic Records
2018

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Collider

Collider

Not Two Records
2017

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Cracked Anegg
2013

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