DEK - Didi Kern, Elisabeth Harnik, Ken Vandermark The Sugar Maple Milwaukee, WI July 17, 2016 AUD FLAC

1. intro by Vandermark
2. Unknown Title #1
3. Unknown Title #2
4. Unknown Title #3

intermission

5. Unknown Title #4
6. spoken outro
7. Unknown Title #5

Sound quality slightly better on second set.

Ken Vandermark - tenor sax, baritone sax, clarinet, bass clarinet
Elisabeth Harnik - piano
Didi Kern - drums, percussion, small instruments, vocalisation

Aud - Core Binaurals - Zoom H2(16/44.1) - Sound Studio - Xact, flac level 8

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"DEK- featuring Didi Kern (drums), Elisabeth Harnik (piano), and Ken Vandermark (reeds)- is a trio that creates music which displays the impact that improvisation, new composition, and the genres of rock, funk, and afrobeat have on each other. First established in September of 2014, the group has worked together on a regular basis in Europe, and will release their first album on the Trost label in 2016; a year which will feature performances by the band in New York City during Vandermark's Stone residency during January, in Milwaukee as part of the Option Milwaukee series, and during an extensive tour of Europe in October."

Ken Vandermark's Free Fall Trio - Live Stockholm 2007 (FM recording) flac

There were a couple of requests for this one, so I thought I might as well put it at the top of the front page as it was originally posted quite a while ago, back in February 2008. Otherwise it is as it was, but with a new link at the bottom of the comments section. Posted back then by Boromir:

This trio is unlike any of the other projects that Ken Vandermark's been involved in. There's none of the wild energy found in Vandermark 5 and his work with The Thing. The trio was formed to carry on the style of the 1960s drumless trio of Jimmy Giuffre. The influence is obvious, though the music they play is not a straight tribute to Giuffre. Vandermark plays clarinet on all tracks. The music is melodic and reflective, and is a tribute to Vandermarks flexibility. He is well accompanied by an excellent Swedish pairing.

Details:

Ken Vandermark - Free Fall
2007-September-19
Stockholm, Sweden
Glenn Miller Café, 2007

Ken Vandermark,reeds
Harvard Wiik,p
Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten,b

Set 1: 45:321
Title 4:51
2 Announcement KV 0:08
3 E.C. (HW,comp) 8:08
4 Announcement KV 0:33
5 Methologies (HW,comp) 7:36
6 Title 3:40
7 Announcement KV 0:58
8 Open, Not Closed 6:26
9 Announcement KV 0:32
10 Music For Clocks 6:48
11 Announcement KV 0:09
12 Invisible Cities (HW,comp) 5:34
13 Announcement Speaker 0:08


Set 2: 44:381
Title 1:59
2 Announcement KV 0:27
3 Eulogy For The Typewriter 10:33
4 Announcement KV 0:29
5 Ithalics (HW,comp) 4:53
6 Title 4:30 7 Announcement KV 0:12
8 Cottonfield 6:41 9 Title 2:23
10 Title 2:19
11 Announcement KV 0:31
12 Turns (TerrieEx,comp) 9:24
13 Announcement Speaker 0:11

The concert was broadcast on Swedish radio. Sound quality is excellent. Thanks to jazzrita for seeding this fine concert.
Link in comments.

Ken Vandermark's Resonance Ensemble - Live in Cormòns '09

"The Resonance Ensemble, an international New Jazz group,
began in 2007 as a co-presentation by Ken Vandermark and
Marek Winiarski. After performing in Poland over the course
of several years with a large number of groups (the Vandermark
5, duo with Paal Nilssen-Love, Sonore, Free Fall, Powerhouse
Sound, the Frame Quartet and many more), Vandermark decided
that is was time to organize a band that included musicians from
that part of the world. After consulting with Winiarski (who runs
Not Two records and is an organizer of Jazz concerts in Krakow),
the two combined their resources and knowledge in order to put
together a large unit of improvisers from the contemporary scene.
The Resonance Ensemble's music has advanced Vandermark's
composing methods for large groups, work that started with the
early music of Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet and also the
Territory Bands. Much of this new material combines his interest
in “suite forms” (perhaps most influenced by Duke Ellington and
Charles Mingus) and a collaging approach to improvising structures
that he began with the Territory Band. The project provided
Vandermark with the first opportunity in his career to do nothing
but compose for a week. In September of 2009, he began a new
approach to writing for the project, a series of “modular pieces,”
which can be reassembled for each performance, giving added
spontaneity to both the improvising and the compositional structure.
The results of these efforts, coupled with the creative input of the
musicians and the organizational skills of Winiarski and the staff at
Alchemia, has given the current music scene a powerful band that
is helping to define a new era for Jazz and Improvised Music."

Rec live at "Jazz & Wine Of Peace '09", Teatro Comunale, Cormòns,
Italy, on October 23, 2009 (radio broadcast)

Ken Vandermark (USA),tenor saxophone,clarinet
WacBaw Zimpel (Poland),clarinet,bass clarinet
Mikolaj Trzaska (Poland),alto saxophone,bass clarinet
Mark Tokar (Ukraine),bass
Steve Swell (USA),trombone
Dave Rempis (USA),tenor & alto saxophones
Per-Âke Holmlander (Sweden),tuba
Tim Daisy (USA),drums
Magnus Broo (Sweden),trumpet
Michael Zerang (USA),drums,percussion

1. Modular And Abstract #1 (15:22)
2. Modular And Abstract #2 (18:05)
3. Modular And Abstract #3 (16:46)
4. Encore (04:26)

Total Time 54:40

Athens [GA] Creative Media Festival April 1-5, 2004 - School Days

School Days

Athens Creative Music Encounter

40 Watt Club,

Athens, GA

April 4, 2004

lineage: AUD > DAT > Tascam standalone > CDR > EAC > FLAC FRONTEND > FLAC

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Ken Vandermark-reeds

Jeb Bishop-trombone

Kjell Nordeson-vibes

Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten-bass

Paal Nilssen-Love-drums

Athens Creative Media Encounter Festival brings jazz greats to Athens – First Day Third Concert

11 p.m. - Ad hoc group organized by Joe Morris

Joe Morris Ad Hoc Group

Athens Creative Media Encounter,

40 Watt Club,

Athens, GA

April 1, 2004

source: AUD > DAT > Tascam Stand Alone > CDR > EAC > FLAC

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Joe Morris-g

Fredrik Ljungkvist-cl

Ken Vandermark-cl

Joe McPhee-pkt tp/ss

Jeb Bishop-tb

Fred Lonberg-Holm-cello

Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten-b

Michael Zerang-perc

Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark, Kent Kessler - Live Chicago 2002

Ken vandermark / Kent Kessler / Joe McPhee

June 15, 2002

Gallery 37

Storefront TheaterChicago, IL
June 15, 2002

1...09.58

2...14.41

3...09.18

4...04.51

5...06.14

Ken Vandermark - reeds

Joe McPhee - reeds/tp

Kent Kessler - bass

I think this is a killer recording. Not quite up to the historical uniqueness of the previous posting from sotise, but nevertheless, a farely rare combination of artists. Kessler has long been associated with KV in his bands, particularly Vandermark 5. This trio has in fact made a recording together, in 1996, still available on OKKA records.

There's some great trumpet work (or is it cornet ?) from McPhee, particularly on the first track (which is my favourite of the set).

I think the recording is an audience boot, but very good quality (I've heard far worse commercial recordings). Thanks to "guitars" for seeding.

Links in comments.

the Vandermark 5-live in london 2002

boromir said' I've upped the Vandermark 5 concert:- http://rapidshare.com/files/26284734/VDMLive.rar.html From a BBC Radio 3 broadcast in 2002 (London I think). 70 mins split into 7 tracksRipped at 192 Kbps.
A bit of radio crackle here and there otherwise good sound quality.


Personnel:Ken Vandermark: reedsDave Rempis: reedsJeb Bishop: tromboneTim Mulvenna: drumsKent Kessler: bass Really punchy stuff. Kind of hard bop, with tunes you can hum.



a lot of free, jazz fans dont appear to like vandermark very much,theres a tendency to see him as a populist, or is it the old canard that white boys simply dont swing.
something layed down as law by some of the hardliners in the second wave of sixties freejazzers and ascociated poets and critics.
archie shepp and if my memory serves me well even the great marion brown, were known to deplore the incursions of whitey on their turf.
sun ra never (with the sole ecseption of alan silva)used white folk in his bands ,not to mention some of the,( these days )unspeakable things he said about them.

all of this at the time reflected the fact no doubt that stan getz , gerry mulligan ,chet baker and bill evans ,as talented as they were ,were still getting most of the accolades and making most of the money.
they were posterboys,and from the mid fifties to the mid sixties probably the faces most associated with jazz in the majority white conciousness.

retrospectively we can see that in the avant guard on the fringes there had been great white mavericks,and eccentrics that also deserve to be celebrated ,contemporary jazz and improvised music would be very different had the likes of
mel powell, gil melle, george russell, jimmy guiffre(what a giant)steve lacy, carla bley, paul bley, roswell rudd, paul motian etc etc...,never appeared.

vandermarks a bit of a maverick and individualist as much as one can be in this era, but none of my jazz loving friends admire him or respect his work much, or even that of say mats gustafsson
whom he often plays with.

anyone whos a free jazz purist may disdain the vandermark 5, but heres no gainsaying vandermark's integrity or or the authority of his own dialect and idiom.
he even plays free jazz in its classic form ,really well when he feels like it.
CHECK OUT HIS RECORDS LIVE AT THE GLENN MILLER CAFE, AND THE ONE BY THE SAME GROUP(HIS TRIO+GUSTAFSSON) ON WOBBLY RAIL FOR EXAMPLE.
i personaly like a lot of his various projects
and yep im not kidding that attitude does still exist at least in my part of the world.

this will be my last post for a long while(at least of stuff ive got) my disc drive and also programs like audacity are out of action due to a fuck up by microsoft microshits' software department, any one having a windows xp operating system will know what im talking about.
i accidently turned on windows security updates and it screwed me, for what could be a long time .