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

Ken Vandermark

* Caffeine ( Jim Baker/ Steve Hunt/Ken Vandermark):'' Caffeine'' (

Okka Disk Okka Disk is an independent American jazz record company and label founded in Chicago by Bruno Johnson in 1994. Okka began as a rock music label, but Johnson soon changed direction to record free jazz.

, 1994) * ''

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'' (Quinnah, 1995) * Steelwool Trio (Ken Vandermark/

Kent Kessler Kent Kessler (born January 28, 1957) is an American jazz double-bassist. Career Although born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, Kessler grew up on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He began playing trombone at age ten. When he was thirteen, he moved with his f ...

/Curt Newton): ''

International Front ''International Front'' is an album by American jazz reedist Ken Vandermark, which was recorded in 1994 and released on Okka Disk. He leads the Steelwool Trio with longtime partner bassist Kent Kessler and Boston drummer Curt Newton.Utility Hitter ''Utility Hitter'' is an album by American jazz reedist Ken Vandermark, which was recorded in 1995 and released on the Quinnah label. He leads the Barrage Double Trio, composed of one bass-drums-reeds trio (Nate McBride, Curt Newton, Vandermark) ...

'' (Quinnah, 1996) * Cinghiale: ''

Hoofbeats of the Snorting Swine ''Hoofbeats of the Snorting Swine'' is an album by Cinghiale, a reed duo composed of Mars Williams and Ken Vandermark, which was released in 1996 on Eighth Day Music. At the time of recording Vandermark was member of the post-Hal Russell NRG Ensem ...

'' (Eighth Day Music, 1996) * FJF ( Mats Gustafsson/Ken Vandermark/Steve Hunt/Kent Kessler): ''

Blow Horn ''Blow Horn'' is an album by FJF (Free Jazz Four), a quartet formed by Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and American reedist Ken Vandermark with the Chicago's NRG Ensemble rhythm section of bassist Kent Kessler and drummer Steve Hunt. It was r ...

'' (Okka Disk, 1997) * Steam: ''

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'' (Eighth Day Music, 1997) * Joe Harriott Project: ''

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, 1999) * ''Two Days in December'' (Wobbly Rail, 2002) * ''Furniture Music'' (Okka Disk, 2003) *

Paul Lytton Paul Lytton (born 8 March 1947, London) is an English free jazz and free improvising percussionist. Lytton began on drums at age 16. He played jazz in London in the late 1960s while taking lessons on the tabla from P.R. Desai. In 1969 he began ...

/Ken Vandermark/ Philipp Wachsmann: ''CINC'' (Okka Disk, 2006) * Bridge 61: ''Journal'' (Atavistic, 2006) * Ken Vandermark, Kent Kessler, ,

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (born 23 September 1971 in Oppdal, Norway) is a Norwegian double bass, bassist active in the jazz and free jazz genres. (in Norwegian) Store Norske Leksikon (in Norwegian) Career Flaten played electric bass in local f ...

& : ''Collected Fiction'' (Okka Disk, 2009) * The Frame Quartet (/ Fred Lonberg-Holm/Nate McBride/Ken Vandermark): ''35 mm'' (Okka Disk, 2009) * iTi ( Johannes Bauer/Ken Vandermark/ Paal Nilssen-Love/

Thomas Lehn Thomas Lehn (born 1958 in Fröndenberg) is a German piano and synthesizer player active in free improvisation and contemporary music. Lehn has recorded with Marcus Schmickler, Keith Rowe, John Butcher, Phil Minton, Phil Durrant, Radu Malfatt ...

): ''Artifact: Live In St. Johann'' (Okka Disk, 2010) * Predella Group: ''Strade D'Acqua'' (Multikulti, 2010) * ''Mark in the Water'' (Not Two, 2011) * Platform 1: ''Takes Off'' (

Clean Feed Clean may refer to: * Cleaning, the process of removing unwanted substances, such as dirt, infectious agents, and other impurities, from an object or environment * Cleanliness, the state of being clean and free from dirt Arts and media Music Al ...

, 2012) * Ken Vandermark's Topology Nonet featuring

Joe McPhee Joe McPhee (born November 3, 1939) is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist born in Miami, Florida, a player of tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, the trumpet, flugelhorn and valve trombone. McPhee grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York, and is ...

: ''Impressions of Po Music'' (Okka Disk, 2013) * ''Nine Ways to Read a Bridge'' (Not Two, 2014) * ''Site Specific'' (Audiographic Records, 2015) * ''Momentum 1: Stone'' (Audiographic Records, 2016) * ''Escalator'' (Not Two, 2017) * ''Momentum 4: Consequent Duos 2015>2019'' (Audiographic Records/ Catalytic Sounds, 2019)

The Vandermark Quartet

* ''

Big Head Eddie ''Big Head Eddie'' is the debut album by American jazz reedist Ken Vandermark, which was recorded in 1993 and released on Platypus. Background After moving to Chicago in 1989, Vandermark performed with Hal Russell, whom he replaced in punk jazz ...

'' (Platypus, 1993) * ''

Solid Action ''Solid Action'', is a compilation album released in 1999 by Seattle-based rock band The U-Men. It was released by the label Chuckie-Boy. The name of the album is taken from track 10 on ''Step on a Bug''. Track listing # ''Gila'' - 2.18 # ''Shoot ...

'' (Platypus, 1994)

The Vandermark 5

* ''

Single Piece Flow ''Single Piece Flow'' is an album by American jazz reedist Ken Vandermark, which was recorded in 1996 and released on Atavistic. It was the debut of the Vandermark 5, which features Mars Williams on reeds, Jeb Bishop on trombone and guitar, Kent ...

'' (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

* ''

All Night Burner ''All Night Burner'' is the debut album by The Crown Royals, an instrumental R&B/funk quartet which includes jazz saxophonist Ken Vandermark. It was released in 1997 on Estrus.

'' (Estrus, 1997) * '' Funky-Do!'' (Estrus, 1999)

DKV Trio

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Hamid Drake Hamid Drake (born August 3, 1955) is an American jazz drummer and percussionist. By the close of the 1990s, Hamid Drake was widely regarded as one of the best percussionists in jazz and improvised music. Incorporating Afro-Cuban, Indian, and Afr ...

/Ken Vandermark) * ''

Fred Anderson / DKV Trio ''Fred Anderson / DKV Trio'' is an album by the American jazz saxophonist Fred Anderson with the DKV Trio, composed of drummer Hamid Drake, bassist Kent Kessler and reedist Ken Vandermark. The album was recorded in 1996 and released on Okka Disk. ...

'' (Okka Disk, 1997) * '' Baraka'' (Okka Disk, 1997) * ''DKV Live'' (limited edition - Okka Disk, 1997) * ''

Deep Telling ''Deep Telling'' is an album by American jazz guitarist Joe Morris with the DKV Trio recorded in 1998 and released on Okka Disk. The DKV Trio is a band composed of drummer Hamid Drake, bassist Kent Kessler, and saxophonist Ken Vandermark. The who ...

'' (Okka Disk, 1999) - with Joe Morris * '' Live in Wels & Chicago, 1998'' (Okka Disk, 1999) * ''Trigonometry'' (Okka Disk, 2002) * AALY Trio/DKV Trio: ''Double or Nothing'' (Okka Disk, 2002) * ''Past Present'' (Not Two, 2012) * ''Schl8hof'' (Trost, 2013) - with Mats Gustafsson, Massimo Pupillo, Paal Nilssen-Love * ''Sound in Motion in Sound'' (Not Two, 2014) * ''Collider'' (Not Two, 2016)

AALY Trio + Ken Vandermark

( Mats Gustafsson/Peter Janson/Kjell Nordeson + Ken Vandermark)''Hidden in the Stomach''
at Silkheart * ''

Hidden in the Stomach ''Hidden in the Stomach'' is the debut album by the AALY Trio + Ken Vandermark, which was recorded in 1996 and released on the Swedish Silkheart label. Background AALY Trio is a Swedish free jazz band composed of saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, b ...

'' ( Silkheart, 1998) * ''

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'' (Wobbly Rail, 1998) * ''

Live at the Glenn Miller Café ''Live at the Glenn Miller Café'' is the third album by the AALY Trio + Ken Vandermark, which was recorded in Stockholm in 1999 and released on Wobbly Rail, a short-lived imprint started by Merge Records/Superchunk principal Mac McCaughan. AALY ...

'' (Wobbly Rail, 1999) * ''I Wonder If I Was Screaming'' (Crazy Wisdom, 2000)

Sound in Action Trio

* '' Design in Time'' ( Delmark, 1999) * ''Gate'' (Atavistic, 2006)

Tripleplay

* '' Expansion Slang'' (Boxholder, 2000) * ''Gambit'' (Clean Feed, 2004)

Spaceways Inc.

(

, 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) * ''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

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//Ken Vandermark) * ''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

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Peter Brötzmann Peter Brötzmann (born 6 March 1941) is a German saxophonist and clarinetist. Biography Early life Brötzmann was born in Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He studied painting in Wuppertal and was involved with the Fluxus movement ...

/ Mats Gustafsson/Ken Vandermark) * ''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

(/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) * ''Volume 1'' ( Smalltown Supersound, 2009/ Catalytic Sound, 2010) * ''Volume 2'' (Smalltown Supersound, 2010) * ''Live at Cafe Oto'' (Unsounds, 2012) * ''Live at Cafe Oto Day One with

Ab Baars Ab Baars (born November 21, 1955 in Axel, Netherlands) is a Dutch saxophonist and clarinetist who has had an active performance career since the 1970s. He has recorded several albums for the Geestgronden Records, Atavistic Records, and WIG record ...

'' (Catalytic Sound, 2012) * ''Live at Cafe Oto Day Two with '' (Catalytic Sound, 2012) * ''Live at Area Sismica'' (Unsounds, 2014)

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) * ''N N N'' (Audiographic, 2016) * ''Dispatch to the Sea'' (Audiographic, 2016) * ''Trebuchet'' (Trost, 2017)

The Margots

* ''Pescado'' (Okka Disk, 2013) * ''Sople'' (Okka Disk, 2014)

Audio One

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Jeb Bishop Jeb Bishop (born 1962) is an American jazz trombone player. He grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, and attended Jesse O. Sanderson High School. He has studied music (classical trombone performance) at Northwestern University, engineering and ...

/////

Dave Rempis Dave Rempis (born March 24, 1975) is an American free jazz saxophonist. He plays alto, tenor and baritone saxophone. Life and career Dave was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1975. He began his musical studies at the age of 8. In 1993, Rempis ...

/Ken Vandermark/ Mars Williams) * ''An International Report'' (Audiographic, 2014) * ''The Midwest School'' (Audiographic, 2014) * ''What Thomas Bernhard Saw'' (Audiographic, 2015)

DEK Trio

(//Ken Vandermark) * ''Burning Below Zero'' (Trost Records, 2016) * ''Construct 1 - Stone'' (Audiographic, 2017) * ''Construct 2 - Artfacts'' (Audiographic, 2017) * ''Divadlo 29'' (Audiographic, 2017)

Marker

(Ken Vandermark/

Macie Stewart Finom (formerly known as OHMME, and Homme) is a rock band from Chicago, which singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist duo Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart formed in 2014. Since 2016, Matt Carroll has been FINOM's drummer. Background Both Cun ...

///) * ''Wired for Sound'' (Audiographic, 2018) * ''Roadwork 1 / Roadwork 2 / Homework 1'' 3-CD set (Audiographic, 2018)

Edition Redux

(///Ken Vandermark) * ''Better a Rook Than a Pawn'' (Audiographic, 2023)

Other collaborations

/Ken Vandermark/Kent Kessler: ''

A Meeting in Chicago ''A Meeting in Chicago'' is an album by trumpeter/saxophonist Joe McPhee, reedist Ken Vandermark and bassist Kent Kessler, which was released in 1997 on Eighth Day Music and reissued the following year with new artwork by Okka Disk. The album docu ...

'' (Eighth Day Music, 1997; Okka Disk reissue) * Joe Morris/Ken Vandermark/Hans Poppel: ''

Like Rays ''Like Rays'' is an album by American jazz guitarist Joe Morris with reedist Ken Vandermark, who played clarinet and bass clarinet, and German pianist Hans Poppel. It was recorded in 1996 and released on the Knitting Factory label. Reception '' ...

'' (

Knitting Factory The Knitting Factory is a nightclub in New York City that features eclectic music and entertainment. After opening in 1987, various other locations were opened in the United States. The Knitting Factory gave its audience poetry readings, perform ...

, 1998) *

/Ken Vandermark: ''

English Suites The ''English Suites'', BWV 806–811, are a set of six suites written by the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach for harpsichord (or clavichord) and generally thought to be the earliest of his 19 suites for keyboard (discounting several les ...

'' (Wobbly Rail, 2000) * ''Pipeline'' ( Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2000, issued 2013) *

Pandelis Karayorgis Pandelis Karayorgis (born 1962) is a Greek-born and Boston-based pianist, composer and educator. Life and career Karayorgis was born in Athens, Greece in 1962. He began classical piano lessons at the age of 9, but by the end of high school he wa ...

//Ken Vandermark: ''No Such Thing'' (Boxholder, 2001) * Ken Vandermark & : ''Duets'' (Future Reference, 2003) * Gold Sparkle Trio + Ken Vandermark: ''Brooklyn Cantos'' (Squealer, 2004) * Rutherford/Vandermark/Müller/van der Schyff: '' Hoxha'' (Spool, 2005) * Marcin Oleś//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) *

Trio + Ken Vandermark: ''Goofy June Bug'' (Wig, 2008) * C.O.D.E.: ''Play the Music of

Ornette Coleman Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album '' Free Jazz: A Colle ...

Eric Dolphy Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist and flautist. On a few occasions, he also played the clarinet and piccolo. Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gai ...

'' (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/ + 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 ''Enormous Door'' is an album by Dutch post-punk band The Ex and Brass Unbound, a quartet of horn players hailing from four different countries. The album was released in 2013 on The Ex's own label, comprising reworked versions of previously rel ...

'' (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) * Rara Avis: ''Rara Avis'' (Not Two, 2015) * Barry Guy/Ken Vandermark: ''Occasional Poems'' (Not Two, 2015) * Mars Williams/

/Ken Vandermark/ ''Western Automatic'' (Aerophonic Records, 2015) * Lasse Marhaug/Ken Vandermark: ''Close Up'' (Audiographic Records, 2016) * The Ex (band)">Terrie Hessels/Ken Vandermark: ''Splinters'' (Audiographic Records, 2016) * Shelter (//Ken Vandermark/Nate Wooley): ''Shelter'' (Audiographic Records, 2017) * /Michael Thieke/Ken Vandermark: ''Triptych'' ( Catalytic Sound, 2017) * Rutherford/Vandermark/Müller/van der Schyff: '' Are We in Diego?'' (WhirrbooM!, 2018) * VWCR: Ken Vandermark/Nate Wooley/ Sylvie Courvoisier/

Tom Rainey Tom Rainey (born 1957) is an American jazz drummer. Career After attending Berklee College of Music he moved to New York in 1979. He has played with Tim Berne, Nels Cline, Drew Gress, Mark Helias, Fred Hersch, Tony Malaby, Simon Nabatov, T ...

: Noise Of Our Time (

Intakt Records Intakt Records is an independent record label, based in Zürich. History The label was founded in 1986 by Patrik Landolt.Margasak, Peter (September 2013) "Intakt's Landolt Takes Long-Term Approach to Avant-Garde". ''Down Beat''. p. 16. In the ea ...

, 2018) * Ken Vandermark/ Michael Snow :''Vandermark & Snow: DUOL'' (Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2019)

As sideman

With

* ''98 Duets'' (Wobbly Rail, 1998) With

Boxhead Ensemble Boxhead Ensemble is a musical collective founded by composer Michael Krassner. The project began in 1991 to record music for the independent film ''The Original Pantry Café''. The group features an ever rotating line-up, which as included Edith ...

* '' Dutch Harbor – Where the Sea Breaks Its Back'' (Atavistic, 1997) * ''

The Last Place to Go ''The Last Place to Go'' is a live album by Boxhead Ensemble, released on October 20, 1998 through Atavistic Records. Track listing Personnel ;Musicians *Edith Frost – vocals (9) *Ryan Hembrey – bass guitar (4-8) *Charles Kim& ...

'' (Atavistic, 1998) With

- The Chicago Octet/Tentet/Tentet Plus Two * '' The Chicago Octet/Tentet'' (Okka Disk, 1998) * '' Stone/Water'' (Okka Disk, 2000) * ''Two Lightboxes'' (2000) * ''Broken English'' (Okka Disk, 2002) * ''Short Visit to Nowhere'' (Okka Disk, 2002) * ''Images'' (Okka Disk, 2004) * ''Signs'' (Okka Disk, 2004) * ''Be Music, Night'' (Okka Disk, 2005) * '' American Landscapes 1'' (Okka Disk, 2007) * '' American Landscapes 2'' (Okka Disk, 2007) * ''At Molde 2007'' (Okka Disk, 2008) * '' 3 Nights in Oslo'' (Smalltown Supersound, 2010) * ''Walk, Love, Sleep'' (Smalltown Supersound, 2012) With

The Denison/Kimball Trio ''The Denison/Kimball Trio'' (sometimes known as DK3) were a musical duo consisting of American guitarist Duane Denison and American drummer Jim Kimball. Their music was completely instrumental and heavily influenced by jazz, the avant-garde and ...

*''

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'' (

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, 1997) With The Flying Luttenbachers * ''

Constructive Destruction ''Constructive Destruction'' is an album by the Flying Luttenbachers. It was released in 1994 by . Critical reception The ''Chicago Tribune'' called the album a "timeless barrage of guitars, drums and saxophones straining to break free from conv ...

'' (ugEXPLODE, 1994) * ''

Destroy All Music ''Destroy All Music'' is the second album by The Flying Luttenbachers, released in 1995 through ugEXPLODE. Track listing Personnel ;The Flying Luttenbachers *Jeb Bishop – bass guitar, trombone, Casio MT-65 *Chad Organ – ten ...

'' (ugEXPLODE, 1994) With

Alan Licht Alan Licht (born June 6, 1968) is an American guitarist and composer, whose work combines elements of pop, noise, free jazz and minimalism. He is also a writer and journalist. Biography Licht was born in New Jersey in 1968. His earliest mus ...

& Loren Mazzacane Connors * ''Hoffman Estates'' ( Drag City, 1998) With Misha Mengelberg * ''Two Days in Chicago'' (hatOLOGY, 1999) With the

NRG Ensemble NRG Ensemble was an American free jazz ensemble founded in the late 1970s by saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist Hal Russell.Margasak, PeterThe Undiminished Power of Hal Russell's NRG Ensemble''at Chicago Reader'' The group's personnel was somewhat f ...

* ''

Calling All Mothers ''Calling All Mothers'' is an album by American jazz group the NRG Ensemble, their first after the death of bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist Hal Russell, which was recorded in 1993 and released on the Quinnah label. Reception The AllMusic r ...

'' (Quinnah, 1994) * ''

This Is My House ''This Is My House'' is an album by American jazz group the NRG Ensemble, their second with saxophonist Ken Vandermark in place of the bandleader and multi-instrumentalist Hal Russell, which was recorded in 1995 and released on Delmark. Recepti ...

'' (Delmark, 1996) * '' Bejazzo Gets a Facelift'' (Atavistic, 1998) With Eric Revis * ''Parallax'' (Clean Feed, 2013) With

Luke Stewart Luke Stewart is a retired American people, American mixed martial artist. Holding a professional record of 6–3, Stewart competed in the now-defunct promotion Strikeforce (mixed martial arts), Strikeforce for his entire career. Background Luke ...

Exposure Quintet * ''Luke Stewart Exposure Quintet'' ( Astral Spirits, 2020) With Witches & Devils * ''At the Empty Bottle'' (Knitting Factory, 2000)

Guest appearances

* Syl Johnson: '' Back in the Game'' (Delmark, 1994) * Gastr del Sol: ''

Camoufleur ''Camoufleur'' is the fifth and final studio album by American indie rock band Gastr del Sol, released on February 23, 1998 on Drag City. Critical reception Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic described ''Camoufleur'' as "a subdued, meditative ...

'' (1998) *

Pinetop Seven Pinetop Seven is an American band from Chicago, Illinois. The group initially revolved around three core members, supplemented by instruments such as double bass, accordion, slide guitar, banjo, and mandolin; more recent recordings have a more ...

: ''Rigging the Toplights'' (1998) *

Superchunk Superchunk is an American indie rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, consisting of singer-guitarist Mac McCaughan, guitarist Jim Wilbur, bassist Laura Ballance, and drummer Jon Wurster. Formed in 1989, they were one of the ...

: '' Come Pick Me Up'' (1999) *

Portastatic Portastatic is an American indie rock band founded in the early 1990s as a solo project of Mac McCaughan, singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Superchunk. The project has since expanded into a full band, sometimes including Superchunk gui ...

feat. Ken Vandermark/: ''

The Perfect Little Door ''The Perfect Little Door'' is CD EP by the band Portastatic. It was released on the Merge Records label in 2001. According to the Merge Records website, the EP is "a collaboration between Mac McCaughan (Superchunk, Portastatic, etc) and Ken Van ...

'' (Merge, 2001) * Zu: '' Igneo'' (2002)

References

External links

Official siteKen Vandermark Discography (1984-2006)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vandermark, Ken Discographies of American artists Jazz discographies

Ken Vandermark

The Vandermark Quartet

The Vandermark 5

The Crown Royals

DKV Trio

AALY Trio + Ken Vandermark

Sound in Action Trio

Tripleplay

Spaceways Inc.

School Days

Territory Band

FME

Paal Nilssen-Love & Ken Vandermark

Free Fall

Sonore

Powerhouse Sound

Daisy / Vandermark Duo

Fire Room

The Resonance Ensemble

Lean Left

Side A

Double Tandem

Made To Break

The Margots

Audio One

DEK Trio

Marker

Edition Redux

Other collaborations

As sideman

Guest appearances

See also

References

External links