Ken Vandermark
Настоящее имя: Ken Vandermark
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American saxophonist, clarinetist and composer, born September 22, 1964 in Warwick, Rhode Island. Son of Stu Vandermark. Throughout his career, Ken Vandermark has been exploring and working to expand the possibilities of improvised and composed music in North America and Europe. Since moving to Chicago from Boston in 1989, he's performed and recorded in a variety of contexts, and with many internationally renowned musicians. In addition to creating music, Ken has made many significant and highly respected contributions to both the local and international jazz/improvised music scenes through organizing concerts in Chicago and sponsoring North American tours with various ensembles. In 1996, he and writer John Corbett began organizing the Empty Bottle "Wednesday Night Jazz Series," concerts that brought musicians from Chicago, North America, and Europe to audiences on a weekly basis for nearly a decade. Starting in April 2006, Ken has continued this work by co-directing the "Immediate Sound Series" with Mitch Cocanig at the Hideout. Since the fall of 2005 he has also been a member of Umbrella Music, a musician based group of organizers collaborating in Chicago. His work as a presenter led to the invitation to act as creative director for the ACME Festival, a four-day event held in Athens, Georgia, during April, 2004, which featured concerts and workshops involving 21 musicians from Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the United States. -Was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 1999. -One of the "Chicagoans of the Year in the Arts, 1994" (Chicago Tribune, January 1, 1995) for the Vandermark Quartet. -Selected as one of the "25 For The Future," the most significant improvising musicians under the age of 40 by Down Beat Magazine, June 1998. -In 2004, was named one of the "Musicians Of The Year" by All About Jazz, New York.
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Участие в группах:
- Vandermark 5
- School Days
- Free Fall (2)
- Boxhead Ensemble
- The Flying Luttenbachers
- Denison Kimball Trio
- DKV Trio
- NRG Ensemble
- Spaceways Incorporated
- Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet
- Territory Band-4
- Cinc
- Territory Band-5
- Territory Band-3
- Sonore
- Powerhouse Sound
- Ken Vandermark's Joe Harriott Project
- Ken Vandermark's Sound In Action Trio
- Fire Room
- Bridge 61
- FME
- Territory Band-2
- Crown Royals
- Jon Vanderlander Trio
- FJF
- The Come Sunday Ensemble
- Debris (5)
- Territory Band-1
- Steelwool Trio
- Tripleplay
- Artifact iTi
- Tim Daisy / Ken Vandermark Duo
- Cinghiale
- Lean Left
- The Frame Quartet
- Territory Band-6
- Steam (5)
- The Resonance Ensemble
- Caffeine (7)
- The Vandermark Quartet
- The Waste Kings
- Side A (3)
- Reed Trio
- Witches & Devils
- El Infierno Musical
- Double Tandem
- Platform 1
- Predella Group
- Made To Break
- Rara Avis (3)
- Brass Unbound
- Ken Vandermark's Topology Nonet
- The Margots
- Ken Vandermark / Paal Nilssen-Love
- Pipeline (6)
- Eric Revis' 11:11
- Parallax Ensemble
- Audio One (5)
- The Alan Licht / Loren Mazzacane-Connors Ensemble
- Ethnic Drivers
- Two Days In December
- Chicago Reed Quartet
- DEK TRIO
- Summit Quartet
- Marker (6)
- VWCR
- Details in the Air
- A Merge Group
- ENTR'ACTE (3)
- 4 Corners (4)
- Ken Vandermark & Nate Wooley Duo
- Ikue Mori / Steve Noble / Ken Vandermark Trio
- John Butcher / Ken Vandermark Duo
- Hamid Drake / Eddie Prévost / Ken Vandermark Trio
- Friends Of Barry Guy
- Transatlantic Five
- 4th Stream
- Edition Redux
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Vandermark
Vanderrmark