Ken Vandermark is an American composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist.
Jeb Bishop is an American jazz trombone player.
Kent Kessler is an American jazz double-bassist.
Paul Lytton is an English free jazz and free improvising percussionist.
Betwixt is an album by jazz pianist Pandelis Karayorgis, which was recorded in 2006 and released on the Swiss hatOLOGY label. It was the third recording by mi3, a trio with bassist Nate McBride and drummer Curt Newton.
Okka Disk is an independent American jazz record company and label founded in Chicago by Bruno Johnson in 1994.
Symbolic Gesture is an album by American jazz guitarist Joe Morris, which was recorded in 1993 and released on the Italian Soul Note label. It features his trio with bassist Nate McBride and drummer Curt Newton. After four records on his own Riti label, this was his debut on another imprint and the first guitarist-led album in the twenty-year history of Black Saint/Soul Note.
Pandelis Karayorgis is a Greek-born and Boston-based pianist, composer and educator.
Big Head Eddie is the debut album by American jazz reedist Ken Vandermark, which was recorded in 1993 and released on Platypus.
International Front is an album by American jazz reedist Ken Vandermark, which was recorded in 1994 and released on Okka Disk. He leads the Steelwool Trio with longtime partner bassist Kent Kessler and Boston drummer Curt Newton.
Utility Hitter is an album by American jazz reedist Ken Vandermark, which was recorded in 1995 and released on the Quinnah label. He leads the Barrage Double Trio, composed of one bass-drums-reeds trio from Boston and other from Chicago. The whole band plays six Vandermark compositions, the remaining five tracks are short improvisations: one for each of the trios and three duos.
A Meeting in Chicago is an album by trumpeter/saxophonist Joe McPhee, reedist Ken Vandermark and bassist Kent Kessler, which was released in 1997 on Eighth Day Music and reissued the following year with new artwork by Okka Disk. The album documents trio, duo and solo improvisations recorded all in a single take with no rehearsal, before playing their first concert later that night at The Empty Bottle. Vandermark cites McPhee’s solo recording Tenor as a major influence.
Discography for jazz reedist Ken Vandermark. The year indicates when the album was first released.
Design in Time is an album by American jazz reedist Ken Vandermark, which was recorded in 1999 and released on Delmark. It was the debut recording by the Sound in Action Trio, which features two drummers: former Sun Ra percussionist Robert Barry and frequent Vandermark collaborator Tim Mulvenna. Most of the tunes are classics written by Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, Sun Ra, Don Cherry and Albert Ayler.
Rebus is an album by American jazz guitarist Joe Morris with reedist Ken Vandermark, who played tenor sax, and drummer Luther Gray. It was recorded in 2006 and released on the Portuguese Clean Feed label. Morris and Vandermark have recorded before on Like Rays, a trio date with pianist Hans Poppel. Morris also joined Vandermark's DKV Trio on Deep Telling.
Heart and Sack is an album by jazz pianist Pandelis Karayorgis, which was recorded in 1998 and released on Leo Lab, a sublabel of Leo Records. It was the debut recording of his trio with bassist Nate McBride and drummer Randy Peterson.
Free Advice is an album by jazz pianist Pandelis Karayorgis, which was recorded in 2004 and released on the Portuguese Clean Feed label. It was the second recording by mi3, a trio with bassist Nate McBride and drummer Curt Newton. For the group's first album, We Will Make a Home for You, Karayorgis plays the Fender Rhodes electric piano, but for this record he switches to acoustic piano. The album includes covers of pieces by Duke Ellington, Hasaan Ibn Ali and Sun Ra.
We Will Make a Home for You is an album by jazz pianist Pandelis Karayorgis, which was recorded between 2002 and 2003 and released on the Portuguese Clean Feed label. It was the debut recording by mi3, a trio with bassist Nate McBride and drummer Curt Newton. According to Karayorgis, he plays Fender Rhodes partly out of necessity, since the Abbey Lounge had no piano, and partly out of curiosity for the effect it would have on the music. The album includes covers of pieces by Thelonious Monk, Hasaan Ibn Ali and Eric Dolphy.
Jaimie "Breezy" Branch was an American jazz trumpeter and composer.
English Suites is a double album by percussionist and electronic musician Paul Lytton and reed player Ken Vandermark. Disc 1 was recorded on January 11, 1999, in a Chicago studio, while disc 2 was recorded on November 20, 1999, at a concert in Hasselt, Belgium. The album was released on CD in 2000 by Wobbly Rail, an imprint of Merge Records.
