Discography for jazz reedist Ken Vandermark. The year indicates when the album was first released.
(Hamid Drake/Kent Kessler/Ken Vandermark) [4] [5] [6]
(Mats Gustafsson/Peter Janson/Kjell Nordeson + Ken Vandermark) [7]
(Hamid Drake, Ken Vandermark)
(Vandermark/Bishop/Nordeson/Håker-Flaten/Nilssen-Love) [1]
(Paal Nilssen-Love/Nate McBride /Ken Vandermark) [1]
(Peter Brötzmann/Mats Gustafsson/Ken Vandermark) [1]
(Tim Daisy /Ken Vandermark)
(Paal Nilssen-Love/Terrie Ex/Andy Moor/Ken Vandermark) [8]
(Jason Adasciewicz /Josh Berman/Jeb Bishop/Tim Daisy /Nick Macri /Nick Mazzarella /Jen Paulson /Dave Rempis/Ken Vandermark/Mars Williams) [3]
(Elisabeth Harnik /Didi Kern /Ken Vandermark) [3]
(Ken Vandermark/Macie Stewart/Steve Marquette /Andrew Clinkman /Phil Sudderberg )
(Erez Dessel /Lily Finnegan /Beth McDonald /Ken Vandermark)
With Jeb Bishop
With Boxhead Ensemble
With Peter Brötzmann - The Chicago Octet/Tentet/Tentet Plus Two
With Alan Licht & Loren Mazzacane Connors
With Misha Mengelberg
With the NRG Ensemble
With Eric Revis
With Luke Stewart Exposure Quintet
With Witches & Devils
Peter Brötzmann was a German jazz saxophonist and clarinetist regarded as a central and pioneering figure in European free jazz. Throughout his career, he released over fifty albums as a bandleader. Amongst his many collaborators were key figures in free jazz, including Derek Bailey, Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor, as well as experimental musicians such as Keiji Haino and Charles Hayward. His 1968 Machine Gun became "one of the landmark albums of 20th-century free jazz".
Joe McPhee is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist born in Miami, Florida, a player of tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, the trumpet, flugelhorn and valve trombone. McPhee grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York, and is most notable for his free jazz work done from the late 1960s to the present day.
Ken Vandermark is an American composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist.
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten is a Norwegian bassist active in the jazz and free jazz genres.
Hamid Drake is an American jazz drummer and percussionist.
The Thing are a Norwegian/Swedish jazz trio, consisting of Mats Gustafsson (saxophones), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, and Paal Nilssen-Love (drums).
Mats Olof Gustafsson is a Swedish free jazz saxophone player.
Fred Lonberg-Holm is an American cellist based in Chicago. He moved from New York City to Chicago in 1995.
Jeb Bishop is an American jazz trombone player.
Marc Charles "Mars" Williams was an American jazz and rock saxophonist. He was a member of the American new wave band The Waitresses from 1980 to 1983, and a member of the British post-punk band The Psychedelic Furs from 1983 to 1989 and again from 2005 until his death in 2023. Williams also was a founding member of the acid jazz group Liquid Soul, and a member of the free jazz-oriented NRG Ensemble.
Kent Kessler is an American jazz double-bassist.
Paul Lytton is an English free jazz and free improvising percussionist.
Okka Disk is an independent American jazz record company and label founded in Chicago by Bruno Johnson in 1994.
Deep Telling is an album by American jazz guitarist Joe Morris with the DKV Trio recorded in 1998 and released on Okka Disk. The DKV Trio is a band composed of drummer Hamid Drake, bassist Kent Kessler, and saxophonist Ken Vandermark. The whole quartet plays together only on three collective improvisations, on the other five tracks the musicians split off into a variety of duo and trio lineups.
Magnus Broo is a Swedish jazz musician (trumpet) known from own recordings and collaboration with Norwegian jazz musicians like in the band Atomic.
Baraka is an album by the DKV Trio, composed of drummer Hamid Drake, bassist Kent Kessler and reedist Ken Vandermark. It was recorded in 1997 and released on Okka Disk.
Live in Wels & Chicago, 1998 is a double album by the DKV Trio, composed of drummer Hamid Drake, bassist Kent Kessler and reedist Ken Vandermark. The first CD was recorded live at the "Music Unlimited 98" Festival in Wels, while the second was recorded a few days later at the Velvet Lounge, the Chicago club owned by saxophonist Fred Anderson. The album was released on Okka Disk. All the music is improvised but the first disc is a six pieces suite based on Don Cherry's "Complete Communion'".
Jeb Bishop is primarily known as an improvisational jazz trombonist. However he occasionally plays other instruments on both jazz and rock recordings as noted.
American Landscapes, volumes 1 and 2, is a pair of live albums by the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, led by saxophonist Brötzmann, and featuring an ten-piece ensemble. Documenting performances of two large-scale works, they were recorded on May 28, 2006, at Le Weekend in the Tolbooth at Stirling, Scotland, and were released on CD in 2007 by Okka Disk. On the albums, Brötzmann is joined by saxophonists Mats Gustafsson and Ken Vandermark, trumpeter and saxophonist Joe McPhee, trombonist Johannes Bauer, tubist Per-Ake Holmlander, cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, double bassists Kent Kessler and William Parker, and drummers Paal Nilssen-Love and Michael Zerang.
3 Nights in Oslo is a five-disc live box set album by the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 1, led by saxophonist Brötzmann, and featuring an eleven-piece ensemble. It was recorded during February 19–21, 2009, at Victoria, Nasjonal Jazzscene in Oslo, Norway, and was released on CD in 2010 by the Norwegian Smalltown Superjazzz label. On the album, Brötzmann is joined by saxophonists Mats Gustafsson and Ken Vandermark, trumpeter and saxophonist Joe McPhee, trombonists Jeb Bishop and Johannes Bauer, tubist Per Åke Holmlander, cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, double bassist Kent Kessler, and drummers Paal Nilssen-Love and Michael Zerang. The entire ensemble is heard on discs 1 and 5, while the remaining discs feature duo, trio, and quartet combinations.