

Dave Rempis
Saxophonist, improviser, and composer Dave Rempis has been an integral part of the thriving Chicago jazz and improvised music scene since 1997. With a background in ethnomusicology and African studies at Northwestern University, including a year spent at the University of Ghana, Rempis burst onto the creative music scene at the age of 22 when he was asked to join the now-legendary Chicago jazz outfit The Vandermark Five. This opportunity catapulted him to notoriety as he began to tour regularly throughout the US and Europe, an active schedule that he still maintains to the present day. At the same time, Rempis began to develop the many Chicago-based groups for which he’s currently known, including The Rempis Percussion Quartet, The Engines, Ballister, Rempis/Abrams/Ra, Wheelhouse, Triage, The Rempis/Rosaly Duo, and The Rempis/Daisy Duo. Other collaborations have included work with Paul Lytton, Fred Anderson, Peter Brötzmann, Hamid Drake, Tomeka Reid, Steve Swell, Elisabeth Harnik, John Tchicai, Roscoe Mitchell, Nate Wooley, Kevin Drumm, Paal Nilssen-Love, Nels Cline, and Joe McPhee. In 2013, he started his own record label, Aerophonic Records, to document this ongoing work. Rempis has been named regularly since 2006 in the annual Downbeat Critics’s Poll as a “rising star” on both alto and baritone saxophone, a category that he won in 2017. He was also the recipient of a Ragdale Fellowship from the Herb Alpert Foundation in 2017, as well as an Individual Artists Program grant from the City of Chicago for his solo project “Lattice.”


Acoustic Machine By The Vandermark 5

Afterimage By Pandelis Karayorgis Quintet

Airports For Light By The Vandermark 5

Alchemia By The Vandermark 5

All Your Ghosts in One Corner By Kuzu

Allium By Rempis / Reid / Abrams

Annular Gift By The Vandermark 5

Aphelion By Rempis / Abrams / Ra

Apsis By Rempis / Abrams / Ra + Baker

Astragaloi By Dave Rempis / Elisabeth Harnik / Michael Zerang

Atlas By Territory Band-2

Back to the Circle By Tim Daisy / Dave Rempis

Beat Reader By The Vandermark 5

Bennu By Dave Rempis / Avreeayl Ra Duo

Boss Of The Plaines By Wheelhouse

Burn the Incline By The Vandermark 5

Cash And Carry By The Rempis Percussion Quartet

Cochonnerie By The Rempis Percussion Quartet

Codes / Myths By Rempis / Rosaly Duo

Collide By Territory Band-6 with Fred Anderson

Dodecahedron By The Rempis / Daisy Duo & Guests

Double Arc By The Resonance Ensemble

Early Bird Gets By Rempis / Lopez / Packard

Earscratcher By Dave Rempis / Elisabeth Harnik / Fred Lonberg-Holm / Tim Daisy

Elements of Style… Exercises in Surprise By The Vandermark 5

Empty Castles By Spectral (Rempis/Johnston/Ochs)

Exposure By Silke Eberhard / Dave Rempis / Kent Kessler / Mike Reed

Free Jazz Classics Vol. 1 & 2 By The Vandermark 5

Free Jazz Classics Vol. 3 & 4 By The Vandermark 5

From Wolves To Whales By Wooley / Rempis / Niggenkemper / Corsano

Green Knights By The Engines

Harmattan By Johnson / Rempis / Abrams / Spencer / Cunningham

Hiljaisuus By Kuzu

Hit The Ground Running By Rempis / Piet / Daisy

ICOCI By Rempis / Stadhouders / Rosaly

Ithra By Rempis / Reid / Abrams

Kafka In Flight By The Resonance Ensemble

Lattice By Dave Rempis Solo

Map Theory By Territory Band-3

Naancore By Rempis / Marhaug Duo

Neutral Nation By Rempis / Johnston / Ochs

New Horse For the White House By Territory Band-5

Of Things Beyond Thule volume 2 By McPhee / Rempis / Reid / Lopez / Nilssen-Love

Perihelion By Rempis / Abrams / Ra + Baker

Phalanx By Rempis Percussion Quartet

Polynya By Gunwale

Poster of the Catalytic Sound Festival 2023, Chicago By Dan GrzecaFrom Dan Grzeca

Purple Dark Opal By Kuzu

Scratch and Sniff [CAA-016] By Dave Rempis

Scylla By Rempis / Abrams / Ra + Baker

Second Spring By The Rempis / Daisy Duo

Sirocco By Mark Feldman / Dave Rempis / Tim Daisy

Slag By Ballister

Spectral By Rempis / Johnston / Ochs

Strandwal By From Wolves to Whales

Stringers & Struts By Rempis / Parker / Flaten / Cunningham

Sud Des Alpes By The Rempis Percussion Quartet

SUGAR / SHACK [CAA-005] By Tim Daisy / Terrie Hessels / Dave Rempis

The Ballister Monologues By Ballister

The COVID Tapes By Rempis / Reid / Abrams / Daisy / Damon

The Engines By The Engines

The Long Haul By Rempis Percussion Quartet

The Strobe Sessions [CAA-031] By The Rempis / Rosaly Duo

Throw Tomatoes By Dave Rempis / Matt Piet / Tim Daisy

Triple Tube By Rempis / Harnik / Zerang

Twenty Minute Cliff By Triage

Western Automatic By The Chicago Reed Quartet

Wire and Brass By The Engines

Wistfully By Rempis / Harnik / Zerang

Worse For The Wear By Ballister
