Ken Vandermark News

Clean Feed Records The brainchild of trombonists Jeb Bishop and Jeff Albert , the Lucky 7's are a consummate example of post-Vandermark Chicago-based collectivism.

Several years ago, I became a big fan of saxophonist Ken Vandermark's great jazz group The Vandermark Five, and was introduced to a vibrant and thrilling modern jazz scene in Chicago.

The founding father of the European Free Jazz movement, German saxophonist Peter Brotzmann has made important contributions with Last Exit , Die Like a Dog and his Chicago- and Scandinavian-based Tentet with Ken Vandermark.

There are more than enough attractions in Milwaukee to make the short trip worthwhile any day of the year, but this weekend there's plenty of extra incentive.

Seeing as this received a crown in the Penguin Guide and influenced Ken Vandermark to the point that he named one of his groups after it, I knew I wanted to give it a try, but but found it to be tough sledding indeed.

This interview was conducted in 2007. In a world that has difficulty and attitude toward unfamiliar and creative thought, Ken Vandermark is a visionary exploring possibilities with improvisational and compositional forms.

Posted by Chris Waddington, Contributing writer, The Times-Picayune April 19, 2009 4:00AM Chris Waddington, Concert scene For more than a century, jazz has provided the soundtrack for New Orleans funerals and dances -- an art sustained by tip jars and parades, handed down in families, preserved by acolytes who hate to see anything change.

Firstly, a word to those who avoided Thursday night's Ab Baars Trio/Ken Vandermark gig at the 701 Center for Contemporary Art: Shame.

WEDNESDAY 15 Wednesdays are for Southern scenes on sovereign screens! Today, loyal Eight Days reader, marks the beginning of the Indie Grits Film Festival, a celebration of independent films from the Southeast.

Ab Baars Trio & Ken Vandermark at Victory Grill . Dutch reedman Ab Baars and his trio hook up with Chicago sax monster Ken Vandermark for a potentially thrilling evening of improvisational jazz action.

The Ab Baars Trio is celebrating 20 years together with a 17-city North American tour that brings them to New Orleans on Tuesday.

Chicago-based reedman and composer Ken Vandermark is probably no stranger to Austin ears, as he has been here numerous occasions with his regularly working group, the Vandermark Five; Peter Brotzmann's Chicago Tentet; and in trio with drummers Paul Lytton and Paul Lovens .

Holy crap: Ken Vandermark is coming to town. Who's Ken Vandermark? Surely you're not really asking that ... if you are, let's just say he plays some crazy-ass jazz and he's really good at it.

German reedman Frank Gratkowski has become an increasingly significant presence on both sides of the Atlantic in recent years.

In the past decade, the Rome-based power trio Zu has grown into a truly fearsome beast.

AccuJazz Internet radio continues its weekly roll-out of creatively programmed jazz channels with the release of its newest customizable radio stream, 'Avant-Garde Jazz." The channel is completely free to use ...

He learned to play the drums before he could walk, battled cancer before the age of thirty, and is a driving force behind several of today's most innovative and progressive bands just to name a few.

Navigating a multi-venued festival with concurrent concerts can make for some difficult choices: Keith Tippett and Stan Tracey? Or Ken Vandermark and Barry Guy? This was just one of the conundrums posed by the ...

Eclectic Tatsuya Nakatani Indianapolis Museum of Art, Tobias Theater, 7 p.m., $4-$8, all-ages imamuseum.org, 317-923-1331 Originally from Osaka, Japan, percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani bridges the world of free ...

This year Jazz Bez, one of the biggest jazz festivals in Ukraine, had a final episode that was a performance by one of the most radical jazz projects-Sonore: three saxophonists, each representing his own ...