Ken Vandermark discography

Discography for jazz reedist Ken Vandermark. The year indicates when the album was first released.

Ken Vandermark

The Vandermark Quartet

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)

The Crown Royals

DKV Trio

(Hamid Drake/Kent Kessler/Ken Vandermark)[4][5][6]

AALY Trio + Ken Vandermark

(Mats Gustafsson/Peter Janson/Kjell Nordeson + Ken Vandermark)[7]

Sound in Action Trio

Tripleplay

Spaceways Inc.

(Hamid Drake, Ken Vandermark)

  • Thirteen Cosmic Standards (Atavistic, 2000)
  • Version Soul (Atavistic, 2002)
  • Radiale (Atavistic, 2004) - with Zu

School Days

(Vandermark/Bishop/Nordeson/Håker-Flaten/Nilssen-Love)[1]

  • Crossing Division (Okka Disk, 2000)
  • In Our Times (Okka Disk, 2002)
  • Nuclear Assembly Hall (Okka Disk, 2004) - with Atomic
  • Distil (Okka Disk, 2008) - with Atomic[1]

Territory Band

  • Transatlantic Bridge (Okka Disk, 2001)
  • Atlas (Okka Disk, 2002)
  • Map Theory (Okka Disk, 2004)
  • Company Switch (Okka Disk, 2005)
  • A New Horse for the White House (Okka Disk, 2006)
  • Collide (Okka Disk, 2007) - with Fred Anderson

FME

(Paal Nilssen-Love/Nate McBride [de]/Ken Vandermark)[1]

  • Live at the Glenn Miller Cafe (Okka Disk, 2002)
  • Underground (Okka Disk, 2004)
  • Cuts (Okka Disk, 2005)
  • Montage (Okka Disk, 2006)

Paal Nilssen-Love & Ken Vandermark

  • Dual Pleasure (Smalltown Supersound, 2002)
  • Dual Pleasure 2 (Smalltown Supersound, 2004)
  • Seven (Smalltown Supersound, 2006)
  • Chicago Volume (Smalltown Supersound, 2010)
  • Milwaukee Volume (Smalltown Supersound, 2010)
  • Letter to a Stranger (Smalltown Supersound, 2011)
  • Lightning Over Water (Laurence Family, 2014)
  • Extended Duos (Audiographic/PNL, 2014)

Free Fall

  • Furnace (Wobbly Rail, 2003)
  • Amsterdam Funk (Smalltown Supersonic, 2005)
  • The Point in a Line (Smalltown Supersonic, 2007)
  • Gray Scale (Smalltown Supersonic, 2010)

Sonore

(Peter Brötzmann/Mats Gustafsson/Ken Vandermark)[1]

  • No One Ever Works Alone (Okka Disk, 2004)
  • Only the Devil Has No Dreams (Jazzwerkstatt, 2007)
  • Call Before You Dig (Okka Disk, 2009)
  • Cafe OTO / London (Trost, 2011)

Powerhouse Sound

  • Oslo/Chicago: Breaks (Atavistic, 2007)
  • Overlap (Laurence Family, 2010)

Daisy / Vandermark Duo

(Tim Daisy [de]/Ken Vandermark)

  • August Music (Self-released, 2007)
  • Light on the Wall (Laurence Family, 2009)
  • The Conversation (Multikulti, 2011)

Fire Room

  • Broken Music (Atavistic, 2008)
  • Second Breath (Bocian, 2013)

The Resonance Ensemble

  • Resonance (Not Two, 2008)
  • Resonance (Box set) (Not Two, 2009)
  • Kafka in Flight (Not Two, 2011)
  • What Country Is This? (Not Two, 2012)
  • Head Above Water, Feet Out the Fire (Not Two, 2013)
  • Double Arc (Not Two, 2015)

Lean Left

(Paal Nilssen-Love/Terrie Ex/Andy Moor/Ken Vandermark)[8]

Side A

  • A New Margin (Clean Feed, 2011)
  • In the Abstract (Not Two, 2014)

Double Tandem

  • Cement (PNL, 2012)
  • Ox (dEN, 2012)

Made To Break

  • Provoke (Clean Feed, 2013)
  • Lacerba (Clean Feed, 2013)
  • Cherchez La Femme (Trost, 2014)
  • Before the Code (Trost, 2015)
  • Before the Code: Live (Audiographic, 2016)[3]
  • N N N (Audiographic, 2016)[3]
  • Dispatch to the Sea (Audiographic, 2016)[3]
  • Trebuchet (Trost, 2017)

The Margots

  • Pescado (Okka Disk, 2013)
  • Sople (Okka Disk, 2014)

Audio One

(Jason Adasciewicz [de]/Josh Berman/Jeb Bishop/Tim Daisy [de]/Nick Macri [de]/Nick Mazzarella [de]/Jen Paulson [de]/Dave Rempis/Ken Vandermark/Mars Williams)[3]

  • An International Report (Audiographic, 2014)
  • The Midwest School (Audiographic, 2014)
  • What Thomas Bernhard Saw (Audiographic, 2015)[3]

DEK Trio

(Elisabeth Harnik [de]/Didi Kern [de]/Ken Vandermark)[3]

  • Burning Below Zero (Trost Records, 2016)[3]
  • Construct 1 - Stone (Audiographic, 2017)[3]
  • Construct 2 - Artfacts (Audiographic, 2017)[3]
  • Divadlo 29 (Audiographic, 2017)[3]

Marker

(Ken Vandermark/Macie Stewart/Steve Marquette [de]/Andrew Clinkman [de]/Phil Sudderberg [de])

  • Wired for Sound (Audiographic, 2018)[9][10]
  • Roadwork 1 / Roadwork 2 / Homework 1 3-CD set (Audiographic, 2018)[11][12]

Edition Redux

(Erez Dessel [de]/Lily Finnegan [de]/Beth McDonald [de]/Ken Vandermark)

  • Better a Rook Than a Pawn (Audiographic, 2023)[13]

Other collaborations

  • Joe McPhee/Ken Vandermark/Kent Kessler: A Meeting in Chicago (Eighth Day Music, 1997; Okka Disk reissue)[1]
  • Joe Morris/Ken Vandermark/Hans Poppel: Like Rays (Knitting Factory, 1998)
  • Paul Lytton/Ken Vandermark: English Suites (Wobbly Rail, 2000)
  • Pipeline (Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2000, issued 2013)
  • Pandelis Karayorgis/Nate McBride [de]/Ken Vandermark: No Such Thing (Boxholder, 2001)
  • Ken Vandermark & Brian Dibblee [de]: Duets (Future Reference, 2003)
  • Gold Sparkle Trio + Ken Vandermark: Brooklyn Cantos (Squealer, 2004)
  • Rutherford/Vandermark/Müller/van der Schyff: Hoxha (Spool, 2005)
  • Marcin Oleś/Bartłomiej Brat Oleś [de]/Ken Vandermark: 'Ideas (Not Two, 2005)
  • Morris/Vandermark/Gray: Rebus (Clean Feed, 2007)
  • Vandermark/Karayorgis: Foreground Music (Okka Disk, 2007)
  • Broo/Lane/Nilssen-Love/Vandermark: 4 Corners (Clean Feed, 2007)
  • The Thing + Ken Vandermark: Immediate Sound (Smalltown Supersound, 2007)
  • Ab Baars Trio + Ken Vandermark: Goofy June Bug (Wig, 2008)
  • C.O.D.E.: Play the Music of Ornette Coleman & Eric Dolphy (Cracked An Egg, 2008)
  • Vandermark/Guy/Sanders: Fox Fire (Maya, 2009)
  • Reed Trio: Last Train to the First Station (Kilogram, 2011)
  • Full Blast and Friends: Sketches and Ballads (Trost, 2011)
  • Paul Lytton/Nate Wooley [de] + Ikue Mori/Ken Vandermark: The Nows (Clean Feed, 2012)
  • Vandermark/Gustafsson: Verses (Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2013)
  • Rara Avis: Mutations / Multicellular Mutations (dEN, 2013)
  • The Ex & Brass Unbound: Enormous Door (Ex Records, 2013)
  • Vandermark/Grubbs: Parallax Sounds (Just Temptation, 2014)
  • Ken Vandermak & Nate Wooley Duo: East by Northwest (Audiographic/Pleasure of the Text, 2014)
  • Ken Vandermak & Nate Wooley Duo: All Directions Home (Audiographic/Pleasure of the Text, 2015)[3]
  • Rara Avis: Rara Avis (Not Two, 2015)
  • Barry Guy/Ken Vandermark: Occasional Poems (Not Two, 2015)
  • Mars Williams/Dave Rempis/Ken Vandermark/[[[Nick Mazzarella]] [de]: Western Automatic (Aerophonic Records, 2015)
  • Lasse Marhaug/Ken Vandermark: Close Up (Audiographic Records, 2016)
  • Terrie Hessels/Ken Vandermark: Splinters (Audiographic Records, 2016)
  • Shelter (Steve Heather [de]/Jasper Stadhouders [de]/Ken Vandermark/Nate Wooley): Shelter (Audiographic Records, 2017)[3]
  • Tim Daisy [de]/Michael Thieke/Ken Vandermark: Triptych (Catalytic Sound, 2017)[3]
  • Rutherford/Vandermark/Müller/van der Schyff: Are We in Diego? (WhirrbooM!, 2018)
  • VWCR: Ken Vandermark/Nate Wooley/Sylvie Courvoisier/Tom Rainey: Noise Of Our Time (Intakt Records, 2018)[14]
  • Ken Vandermark/Michael Snow :Vandermark & Snow: DUOL (Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2019)[3]

As sideman

With Jeb Bishop

  • 98 Duets (Wobbly Rail, 1998)

With Boxhead Ensemble

With Peter Brötzmann - The Chicago Octet/Tentet/Tentet Plus Two

With The Denison/Kimball Trio

With The Flying Luttenbachers

With Alan Licht & Loren Mazzacane Connors

With Misha Mengelberg

  • Two Days in Chicago (hatOLOGY, 1999)

With the NRG Ensemble

With Eric Revis

  • Parallax (Clean Feed, 2013)

With Luke Stewart Exposure Quintet

With Witches & Devils

  • At the Empty Bottle (Knitting Factory, 2000)

Guest appearances

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Okka Disk Titles". Okka Disk. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
  2. ^ "Okka Disk". Okka Disk. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "New Recordings". Ken Vandermark. 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  4. ^ "DKV Trio (Active)". Ken Vandermark. 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  5. ^ "DKV Trio – Night One". Elastic Arts Foundation. 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  6. ^ Guthartz, Jason (July 7, 2013). "Hamid Drake Discography". Retrieved 2019-11-23.
  7. ^ Hidden in the Stomach at Silkheart
  8. ^ Lean Left (2009), Volume 1, Smalltown Supersound
  9. ^ Margasak, Peter (February 1, 2018). "Veteran Chicago reedist adapts a mentor role in his visceral new Chicago quintet Marker". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  10. ^ Wall, Patrick (February 1, 2018). "With Marker, Ken Vandermark Synthesizes Sounds to Manipulate Memory". Free Times (Columbia, South Carolina). Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  11. ^ "Marker: Roadwork 1 / Roadwork 2 / Homework 1". Audiographic Records. 2018. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  12. ^ Lindqvist, Gustav (August 6, 2018). "Marker: Roadwork 1 / Roadwork 2 / Homework 1". The Free Jazz Collective. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  13. ^ "Better A Rook Than A Pawn by Edition Redux". bandcamp. 2023. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
  14. ^ "VWCR: Ken Vandermark/Nate Wooley/Sylvie Courvoisier/Tom Rainey: Noise Of Our Time". Intakt Records. September 2018. Retrieved 2023-09-26.
  15. ^ Masters, Marc; Currin, Grayson (20 June 2013). "The Legacy of Loren Connors". Pitchfork. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  16. ^ Meyer, Bill (10 November 2020). "Essential New Music: Luke Stewart's "Luke Stewart Exposure Quintet"". Magnet. Retrieved 1 February 2021.