Ken Vandermark
Ken Vandermark (born September 22, 1964 in Warwick , Rhode Island , USA ) is an American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist . He has lived in Chicago since 1989 .
Life
Vandermark played the trumpet in his youth and then switched to the saxophone. He then studied in Boston and Montreal , where he worked with his own formations; he then settled in Chicago , where he mainly worked in the local avant-garde scene in the 1990s and initially appeared with the noise jazz band The Flying Luttenbachers .
He has made records with many other jazz musicians, e.g. B. with Hal Russell , Paul Lytton , Marcin Oleś , Bartłomiej Oleś , Joe Morris , Misha Mengelberg ( Two Days in Chicago , 1999), Peter Brötzmann and Paul Lovens . He has also directed his own jazz combos : Free Fall , Free Music Ensemble , Territory Band (large orchestra with changing line-ups) and the Vandermark 5 . With Klaus Kugel and Mark Tokar he forms the trio The Escalators .
In 1999 Vandermark received the MacArthur Fellowship grant .
In 2007 the documentary Musician by director Daniel Kraus was published on the everyday life of a jazz musician using Vandermark as an example.
Discographic notes
The Vandermark 5
- Single Piece Flow (Atavistic, 1997)
- Target or Flag (Atavistic, 1998)
- Simpatico (Atavistic, 1999)
- Burn the Incline (Atavistic, 2000)
- Acoustic Machine (Atavistic, 2001)
- Free Jazz Classics Vol. 1 & 2 (Atavistic, 2002)
- Airports for Light (Atavistic, 2003)
- Elements of Style / Exercises in Surprise (Atavistic, 2004)
- Alchemia (Not Two, 2005)
- The Color of Memory (Atavistic, 2005)
- Free Jazz Classics Vol. 3 & 4 (Atavistic, 2005)
- A Discontinuous Line (Atavistic, 2006)
- Four Sides to the Story (Not Two, 2006)
- Beat Reader (Atavistic, 2008)
- Annular Gift (Not Two, 2009)
- The Horse Jumps and the Ship Is Gone (Not Two, 2010)
More albums under his own name
- International Front ( Okka Disk , 1994)
- Ulitlity Hitter (Quinnah, 1995)
- Ken Vandermark & Pandelis Karayorgis Foreground Music (Okka, 2007)
- Joe Morris, Ken Vandermark & Luther Gray: Rebus (Clean Feed, 2007)
- The Thing with Ken Vandermark Immediate Sound (2007), with Mats Gustafsson , Ingebrigt Håker Flaten , Paal Nilssen-Love
- Ken Vandermark with Kent Kessler / Ingebrigt Håker Flaten / Nate McBride / Wilbert de Joode : Collected Fiction at Discogs Collected Fiction (2009)
- Lean Left: Lean Left Volume 1 (2010, with Terrie Ex , Andy Moor , Paal Nilssen-Love)
- Reed Trio: Last Train to the First Station (Kilogram Records 2011) with Mikołaj Trzaska , Wacław Zimpel
- Free Fall: Gray Scale (Smalltown Superjazz, 2011) with Håvard Wiik
- Ken Vandermark & Lasse Marhaug: Close Up (For Abbas Kiarostami) (Systems vs. Artifacts / Audiographic Records, 2016)
- Ken Vandermark & Terrie Hessels : Splinters (Systems vs. Artifacts / Audiographic Records, 2016)
- Made to Break: F4 Fake (Trost, 2019)
- Momentum 4: Consequent Duos 2015-2019 (Audiographic, 2019)
- Entr'acte: Soigne ta droite (Audiographic, 2019)
- Ken Vandermark / Nate Wooley / Sylvie Courvoisier / Tom Rainey : Noise of Our Time (Intakt, 2019)
Lexical entry
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Official website
- Ken Vandermark at Allmusic (English)
- Discography (1984-2006)
- Information on the "Musician" documentation
- Vandermark at NPR
- Ken Vandermark at Discogs (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vandermark, Ken |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warwick , Rhode Island , USA |