Ken Vandermark discography

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

The Vandermark Quartet

The Vandermark 5

  • Single Piece Flow (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

DKV Trio

(Hamid Drake/Kent Kessler/Ken Vandermark)[4][5][6]

AALY Trio + Ken Vandermark

(Mats Gustafsson/Peter Janson/Kjell Nordeson + Ken Vandermark)[7]

Sound in Action Trio

Tripleplay

Spaceways Inc.

(Hamid Drake, 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)[1]

  • 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[1]

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/Nate McBride [de]/Ken Vandermark)[1]

  • 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

(Peter Brötzmann/Mats Gustafsson/Ken Vandermark)[1]

  • 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

(Tim Daisy [de]/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)[8]

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)[3]
  • N N N (Audiographic, 2016)[3]
  • Dispatch to the Sea (Audiographic, 2016)[3]
  • Trebuchet (Trost, 2017)

The Margots

  • Pescado (Okka Disk, 2013)
  • Sople (Okka Disk, 2014)

Audio One

(Jason Adasciewicz [de]/Josh Berman/Jeb Bishop/Tim Daisy [de]/Nick Macri [de]/Nick Mazzarella [de]/Jen Paulson [de]/Dave Rempis/Ken Vandermark/Mars Williams)[3]

  • An International Report (Audiographic, 2014)
  • The Midwest School (Audiographic, 2014)
  • What Thomas Bernhard Saw (Audiographic, 2015)[3]

DEK Trio

(Elisabeth Harnik [de]/Didi Kern [de]/Ken Vandermark)[3]

  • Burning Below Zero (Trost Records, 2016)[3]
  • Construct 1 - Stone (Audiographic, 2017)[3]
  • Construct 2 - Artfacts (Audiographic, 2017)[3]
  • Divadlo 29 (Audiographic, 2017)[3]

Marker

(Ken Vandermark/Macie Stewart/Steve Marquette [de]/Andrew Clinkman [de]/Phil Sudderberg [de])

  • Wired for Sound (Audiographic, 2018)[9][10]
  • Roadwork 1 / Roadwork 2 / Homework 1 3-CD set (Audiographic, 2018)[11][12]

Edition Redux

(Erez Dessel [de]/Lily Finnegan [de]/Beth McDonald [de]/Ken Vandermark)

  • Better a Rook Than a Pawn (Audiographic, 2023)[13]
  • Broadcast Transformer (Audiographic, 2025)[14]

Other collaborations

As sideman

With Jeb Bishop

  • 98 Duets (Wobbly Rail, 1998)

With Boxhead Ensemble

With Peter Brötzmann - The Chicago Octet/Tentet/Tentet Plus Two

With The Denison/Kimball Trio

With The Flying Luttenbachers

With Alan Licht & Loren Mazzacane Connors

With Misha Mengelberg

  • Two Days in Chicago (hatOLOGY, 1999)

With the NRG Ensemble

With Eric Revis

  • Parallax (Clean Feed, 2013)

With Luke Stewart Exposure Quintet

With Witches & Devils

  • At the Empty Bottle (Knitting Factory, 2000)

Guest appearances

See also

References

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