

Ken Vandermark
Ken Vandermark is an American jazz composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. A fixture on the Chicago-area music scene since the 1990s, Vandermark has earned wide critical praise for his playing and his multilayered compositions, which typically balance intricate orchestration with passionate improvisation. He has led or been a member of many groups, has collaborated with many other musicians, and was awarded a 1999 MacArthur Fellowship. He plays tenor saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, and baritone saxophone.


35mm By The Frame Quartet

4 Corners By 4 Corners

A Discontinuous Line By The Vandermark 5

A Meeting in Chicago By Joe McPhee / Ken Vandermark / Kent Kessler

Abet?! አቤት?! By Gustafsson / Vandermark / Baars / Nilssen-Love

Acoustic Machine By The Vandermark 5

Airports For Light By The Vandermark 5

Alchemia By The Vandermark 5

All Directions Home By by Nate Wooley & Ken Vandermark

All Night Burner By The Crown Royals

American Landscapes 1 By Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet

American Landscapes 2 By Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet

AMR By Ken Vandermark / Paal Nilssen-Love Duo

Amsterdam Funk By Free Fall

An International Report By Audio One

Annular Gift By The Vandermark 5

At Molde 2007 By Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet

Atlas By Territory Band-2

Audio One Tour Poster From Cricket Press

August Music By Tim Daisy & Ken Vandermark

Back In the Game By Syl Johnson

Baraka By DKV Trio

Be Music, Night By Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet

Beat Reader By The Vandermark 5

Before the Code By Made to Break

Before the Code: Live By Made to Break

Big Head Eddie By The Vandermark Quartet

Black-and-Red Immediate Sound Poster From Ken Vandermark

Blonk, Mallozzi & Vandermark By Jaap Blonk / Lou Mallozzi & Ken Vandermark

Blow Horn By FJF

Broken English By Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet Plus Two

Broken Music By Fire Room

Brooklyn Cantos By Gold Sparkle Trio With Ken Vandermark

Brotzmann Chicago Tentet Woodcut From Ken Vandermark

Burn the Incline By The Vandermark 5

Burning River Melting Sea (Égő Folyó Olvadó Tenger) By Ken Vandermark / István Grencsó / Róbert Benkő

Cafe Oto / London By Sonore

Caffeine By Baker / Hunt / Vandermark

Call Before You Dig By Sonore

Cherchez La Femme By Made to Break

Chicago Volume By Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love

CINC By Paul Lytton / Ken Vandermark / Phillipp Wachsmann

Cinc Poster From Ken Vandermark

Cinghiale: Hoofbeats of the Snorting Swine By Cinghiale

Close Up (For Abbas Kiarostami) By Ken Vandermark & Lasse Marhaug

Collected Fiction By Ken Vandermark

Collide By Territory Band-6 with Fred Anderson

Company Switch By Territory Band-4

Consequent Duos: series 2a By Tim Daisy & Ken Vandermark

Consequent Duos: series 2b By Joe Morris & Ken Vandermark

Consequent Duos: series 2c By Ikue Mori & Ken Vandermark

Consequent Duos: series 2d By Fred Lonberg-Holm & Ken Vandermark

Consequent Duos: series 2e By Ken Vandermark & Christof Kurzmann

Consequent Duos: series 2f By Jaap Blonk & Lou Mallozzi with Ken Vandermark

Construct 1 : Stone By DEK Trio

Construct 2 : Artacts By DEK Trio

Construct 3 : Divadlo 29 By DEK Trio

Cuts By FME

Deep Telling By DKV Trio with Joe Morris

Deeply Discounted II / Sequences of Snow By Ken Vandermark & Nate Wooley

Dimensional Stack Up [CAA-013] By Ben Hall / Joe Morris / Ken Vandermark

Dispatch to the Sea By Made to Break
New Release

Distant Cousins By Paul Lytton & Ken Vandermark

Distil By Atomic / School Days

Do Not Slam The Door! By Grenscó Collective Special 5 with Ken Vandermark

Double Arc By The Resonance Ensemble

Double Or Nothing By AALY Trio / DKV Trio

Drink, Don’t Drown By The Vandermark 5

Dual Pleasure By Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love

Dual Pleasure 2 By Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love

East by Northwest By by Nate Wooley & Ken Vandermark

Eightball By The Vandermark Quartet

Elements of Style… Exercises in Surprise By The Vandermark 5

English Suites By Ken Vandermark & Paul Lytton

Enormous Door By The Ex & Brass Unbound

Escalator By Ken Vandermark / Klaus Kugel / Mark Tokar
New Release

Eternal River By Ken Vandermark & Hamid Drake

Expansion Slang By Tripleplay

Extended Duos By Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love

F4 Fake By Made to Break

FME North America Tour, 2005 From Ken Vandermark

Foreground Music By Ken Vandermark & Pandelis Karayorgis

Fox Fire By Ken Vandermark / Barry Guy & Mark Sanders

Fred Anderson / DKV Trio By DKV Trio

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

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

Furnace By Free Fall

Furniture Music By Ken Vandermark

Gambit By Tripleplay

Gate By Sound in Action Trio

Goofy June Bug By Ab Baars Trio + Ken Vandermark

Gray Scale By Free Fall

Head Above Water/Feet Out Of The Fire By The Resonance Ensemble

Hidden In The Stomach By AALY Trio + Ken Vandermark

Ideas By Ken Vandermark feat Marcin Oleś & Bartłomiej Brat Oleś

Images By Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet

Immediate Sound By The Thing & Ken Vandermark

Immediate Sound “Cyclone” Poster From Cricket Press

Immediate Sound Poster From Dan Gzerca

Impressions of Po Music By Ken Vandermark's Topology Nonet Featuring Joe McPhee

Jon Vanderlander Trio By Jon Vanderlander Trio

Journal By Bridge 61

Kafka In Flight By The Resonance Ensemble

Kozmik Bazaar By Konstrukt / Ken Vandermark

Latitude 41.88 By DKV Trio

Letter to a Stranger By Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love

Light on the Wall By Ken Vandermark & Tim Daisy

Like Rays By Joe Morris / Ken Vandermark / Hans Poppel

Line 26 By Hoxha

Live By DKV Trio

Live at Area Sismica By Lean Left

Live at Cafe Oto By Lean Left

Live at Glenn Miller Cafe By FME

Live at the Empty Bottle By Witches & Devils

Live at the Glenn Miller Cafe By AALY Trio + Ken Vandermark

Live in Sant’ Anna Arresi By Summit Quartet

Live In St. Johann By iTi

Luke Stewart Exposure Quintet By Luke Stewart

Made To Break Buenos Aires 2018 Poster From Federico Peñalva

Map Theory By Territory Band-3

Mark In the Water By Ken Vandermark

Milwaukee Volume By Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love

Momentum 1 : Stone By Ken Vandermark

Momentum 2 & 3 : Brüllt and Monster Roster By Momentum 2 & 3

Momentum 4: Consequent Duos 2015>2019 By Ken Vandermark

Momentum 5: Stammer (triptych) By Ken Vandermark

Montage By FME

N N N By Made to Break

Neutrons By DK3

New Horse For the White House By Territory Band-5

New Industries By Marker

Nine Ways to Read a Bridge By Ken Vandermark

No One Ever Works Alone By Sonore

No-Exit Corner By Ken Vandermark / Klaus Kugel / Mark Tokar

NRG Ensemble: Bejazzo Gets a Facelift By NRG Ensemble

NRG Ensemble: Calling All Mothers By NRG Ensemble

Nuclear Assembly Hall By Atomic / School Days

Occasional Poems By Barry Guy & Ken Vandermark

Open Border By Vandermark / Drake / Trovalusci / Ceccarelli

Oslo / Chicago: Breaks By Powerhouse Sound

Overlap By Powerhouse Sound

OX By Double Tandem

Past Present By DKV Trio

Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet 10th Anniversary Poster From Ken Vandermark

Point In a Line By Free Fall
New Addition

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

Powerhouse Sound at The Empty Bottle, 2008 From Ken Vandermark

Provoke By Made to Break

Rara Avis By Rara Avis

Rara Avis: Mutations/Multicellulars Mutations By Rara Avis

Real Time By Steam

Rebus By Joe Morris / Ken Vandermark & Luther Gray

Red-and-Black Immediate Sound Poster From Ken Vandermark

Redux [CAA-001] By Caffeine

Reed Trio: Last Train To The First Station By Reed Trio

Resistance By Fred Lonberg-Holm & Ken Vandermark

Scaffolding By Ken Vandermark & Terrie Ex

Schlager By C. Spencer Yeh & Ken Vandermark

School Days: Crossing Division By School Days

Screen Off By Paal Nilssen-Love & Ken Vandermark

Second Breath By Fire Room

Seven By Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love

Shelter By Shelter

Short Visit To Nowhere By Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet Plus Two

Side A: A New Margin By Side A

Side A: In the Abstract By Side A

Signs By Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet

Silk-screened “Monster” Poster by Dan Grzeca From Dan Grzeca

Silk-screened Poster From Ken Vandermark

Simpatico By The Vandermark 5

Single Piece Flow By he Vandermark 5

Site Specific By Ken Vandermark

Sketches & Ballads By Full Blast & Friends
New Release

Snapshots: Complete By Ken Vandemark

Snapshots: Volume 1 | Japan By Ken Vandermark

Snapshots: Volume 2 | Austria By Ken Vandermark

Snapshots: Volume 3 | Brazil By Ken Vandermark

Snapshots: Volume 4 | Poland By Ken Vandermark

Soigne Ta Droite By Entr'acte

Solid Action By The Vandermark Quartet

Sound In Motion In Sound By DKV Trio

Splinters By Ken Vandermark & Terrie Hessels

Standards By Ken Vandermark

Steelwood Trio: International Front By Steelwool Trio

Strade d’Acqua/Roads of Water By Ken Vandermark

Straight Lines By Ken Vandermark's Joe Harriott Project

Stumble By AALY Trio + Ken Vandermark

Target Or Flag By The Vandermark 5

Territory Band – 4, Chicago, 2004 From Richard Hull

The Chicago Octet/Tentet By Peter Brötzmann

The Color Of Memory By The Vandermark 5

The Conversation By Ken Vandermark & Tim Daisy

The DKV Thing Trio : Collider By Ken Vandermark

The Ex “Saxophones” Poster From Ken Vandermark

The Ex/Ken Vandermark at Lincoln Hall 2011 Poster From Ken Vandermark

The Fire Each Time By DKV Trio + Joe McPhee

The Horse Jumps And The Ship Is Gone By The Vandermark 5 Special Edition

The Lions Have Eaten One of the Guards By Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love

The Margots: Pescado By The Margots

The Margots: Sople By Ken Vandermark

The Midwest School By Audio One

The Nows By Paul Lytton / Nate Wooley + Ikue Mori & Ken Vandermark

The Resonance Ensemble By Ken Vandermark

The Vandermark Five & Atomic From Yeehaw Industries

The Vandermark Five, Green Mill, 2005 From Dan Grzeca

The Vandermark Five, Philadelphia, 2004 From Ken Vandermark

Thinking On One’s Feet By The Vandermark 5

Thirteen Cosmic Standards By Spaceways Incorporated

Totaal By Details in the Air

Transatlantic Bridge By Territory Band-1

Trébuchet By Made To Break

Trigonometry By DKV Trio

Triptych By Tim Daisy / Michael Thieke / Ken Vandermark

Two Days in December By Ken Vandermark

Underground By FME

Utility Hitter By Barrage Double Trio

Vandermark 5 Silk-screened Concert Poster From Vandermark 5

Vandermark 5 Turf Club Poster (2002) From Vandermark 5

Vandermark 5 vs. Atomic Poster From Vandermark 5 / Atomic

Verses By Ken Vandermark & Mats Gustafsson

Version Soul By Spaceways Incorporated

Volume 1 By Lean Left

Volume 2 By Lean Left

Walk, Love, Sleep By Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet

Wels / Chicago By DKV Trio

What Country Is This? By The Resonance Ensemble

What Thomas Bernhard Saw By Audio One

Wired For Sound By Marker
