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Monday Nov 2 | City Paper

Festival Watch: Umbrella, Troika, All Tomorrow's Parties

This year's event - which, for the fourth turn of the calendar, "celebrates jazz and improvised music from Chicago and beyond" - extends over four days and includes performances from Matthew Shipp and a quartet that includes Tortoise 's John Herndon .

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Related Topix: Media, Publishing, Matthew Shipp, Jazz, Raleigh Metro, My Bloody Valentine, Horror Movies, Thriller, Music, Entertainment

Sat Oct 31, 2009

All About Jazz

Vandermark 5: Annular Gift

Not Two Records Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and bandleader Ken Vandermark has led his flagship ensemble, the Vandermark 5, through a decade's worth of personnel changes.

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Related Topix: The Vandermark 5, Jazz, World News, Poland,

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Jazz & Blues Music Reviews

The Vandermark 5 - Annular Gift

The latest statement from this long running group was recorded live at the club Alchemia in Krakow during March of 2009.

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Related Topix: The Vandermark 5, Jazz

Fri Oct 23, 2009

All About Jazz

Fire!: You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago

With the realization that there will always be more music coming at him than he can keep up with, AAJ Managing Editor John Kelman wonders why anyone would think that jazz is dead or dying.

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Related Topix: Mats Gustafsson, Jazz, Peter Brotzmann

Tue Oct 20, 2009

All About Jazz

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Composer Portrait: Don Cherry Presented by Ars Nova Workshop

Ars Nova Workshop is pleased to commence our season-long celebration of the work and life of multi-instrumentalist and composer Don Cherry .

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Related Topix: Don Cherry, Jazz, Dave Douglas, Steven Bernstein

Thu Oct 01, 2009

Jazz & Blues Music Reviews

Ken Vandermark w/ Barry Guy and Mark Sanders - Fox Fire

Ken Vandermark is one of the great nomads of the jazz world, roaming the Earth in search of music to play and fellow travelers to collaborate with.

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Related Topix: Jazz

Tue Sep 22, 2009

All About Jazz

INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Jazz Musician of the Day: Ken Vandermark

All About Jazz is celebrating Ken Vandermark's birthday today! 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.

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Related Topix: Jazz

Thu Sep 10, 2009

NPR

Listening, Party For Two: Vandermark 5, 'Speedplay'

The Vandermark 5 is reedman and composer Ken Vandermark's best-known group, out of well over 30 different bands he's involved in.

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Related Topix: The Vandermark 5, Jazz, Chicago, IL, Chicago Metro

Fri Aug 14, 2009

Chicago Reader Online

Ken Vandermark in the Belly of the Beast

Earlier this year I interviewed Ken Vandermark for a feature that ran in Down Beat magazine.

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Related Topix: Jazz, The Vandermark 5, Newport, RI

Wed Aug 12, 2009

Democrat & Chronicle

New shows, hot tickets: Vandermark 5, Dolores O'Riordan, Soulive and the Summer Peace Gathering

Cool show: Ken Vandermark was an unknown Chicago saxophonist in 1999 when, in the midst of a show at the Bop Shop, he received a phone call that he'd just been awarded the prestigious MacArthur 'Genius' Grant.

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Related Topix: Soulive, The Vandermark 5, Jazz, Chicago, IL, Pop/Rock, The Cranberries

Democrat & Chronicle

New shows, hot tickets: Vandermark 5, Dolores O'Riordan, Soulive and the Summer Peace Gathering

Cool show: Ken Vandermark was an unknown Chicago saxophonist in 1999 when, in the midst of a show at the Bop Shop, he received a phone call that he'd just been awarded the prestigious MacArthur 'Genius' Grant.

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Related Topix: Soulive, The Vandermark 5, Jazz, Chicago, IL, Pop/Rock, The Cranberries

Sun Aug 09, 2009

Free Williamsburg

Portastatic

Does the world really need another rock band? If the band is fronted by Mac McCaughan, yes.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Portastatic, Superchunk, Electronic, Static, Jazz, North Carolina

Fri Aug 07, 2009

Democrat & Chronicle

New shows, hot tickets: Vandermark 5, Dolores O'Riordan, Soulive and the Summer Peace Gathering

Cool show: Ken Vandermark was an unknown Chicago saxophonist in 1999 when, in the midst of a show at the Bop Shop, he received a phone call that he'd just been awarded the prestigious MacArthur 'Genius' Grant.

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Related Topix: Soulive, The Vandermark 5, Jazz, Chicago, IL, Pop/Rock, The Cranberries

Mon Jul 27, 2009

All About Jazz

Orjan Hulten Trio: In the City

History reveals a long list of venues that have contributed positively to the recorded legacy of some of the greatest figures in jazz.

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Related Topix: Albert Ayler, Jazz, Bill Evans, Duke Ellington, Black Entertainment, John Coltrane, Glenn Miller

Thu Jul 23, 2009

Free Times

Vox Arcana

For as long as I've lived in this hep little burg, pessimists and killjoys alike have consistently bemoaned Columbia's inability to attract good touring bands.

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Related Topix: Columbia, SC, Columbia Metro, Jazz

Fri Jun 26, 2009

All About Jazz

Lucky 7's: Pluto Junkyard

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.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Rob Mazurek

Mon Jun 22, 2009

Jazz & Blues Music Reviews

Rempis Percussion Quartet - Rip Tear Crunch

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.

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Related Topix: Jazz, The Vandermark 5

Tue May 05, 2009

All About Jazz

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Ars Nova Workshop Presents: Peter Brotzmann/Nasheet ...

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.

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Related Topix: Peter Brotzmann, Jazz, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Shannon Jackson, William Parker, Toshinori Kondo

Thu Apr 30, 2009

Chicago Reader Online

Okka Disk turns 15

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.

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Related Topix: Milwaukee, WI, Jazz, Fred Anderson

Wed Apr 29, 2009

Jazz & Blues Music Reviews

Jimmy Giuffre - Free Fall

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.

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Related Topix: Jimmy Giuffre, Jazz

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