Ken Vandermark discography Last updated May 19, 2025 Ken Vandermark . The year indicates when the album was first released.
Ken Vandermark Caffeine (Jim Baker /Steve Hunt /Ken Vandermark): Caffeine (Okka Disk , 1994) [ 1] Standards (Quinnah, 1995)Steelwool Trio (Ken Vandermark/Kent Kessler /Curt Newton): International Front (Okka Disk, 1995) [ 1] Barrage Double Trio: Utility Hitter (Quinnah, 1996) Cinghiale: Hoofbeats of the Snorting Swine (Eighth Day Music, 1996) FJF (Mats Gustafsson /Ken Vandermark/Steve Hunt/Kent Kessler): Blow Horn (Okka Disk, 1997) [ 1] Steam: Real Time (Eighth Day Music, 1997) Joe Harriott Project: Straight Lines (Atavistic , 1999) Two Days in December (Wobbly Rail, 2002)Furniture Music (Okka Disk, 2003) Paul Lytton /Ken Vandermark/Philipp Wachsmann : CINC (Okka Disk, 2006) [ 1] Bridge 61: Journal (Atavistic, 2006) Ken Vandermark, Kent Kessler, Nate McBride [ de ] Ingebrigt Håker Flaten & Wilbert De Joode [ de ] Collected Fiction (Okka Disk, 2009) [ 1] The Frame Quartet (Tim Daisy [ de ] Fred Lonberg-Holm /Nate McBride/Ken Vandermark): 35 mm (Okka Disk, 2009) [ 1] iTi (Johannes Bauer /Ken Vandermark/Paal Nilssen-Love /Thomas Lehn ): Artifact: Live In St. Johann (Okka Disk, 2010) [ 1] Predella Group: Strade D'Acqua (Multikulti, 2010) Mark in the Water (Not Two, 2011)Platform 1: Takes Off (Clean Feed , 2012) Ken Vandermark's Topology Nonet featuring Joe McPhee : Impressions of Po Music (Okka Disk, 2013) [ 2] Nine Ways to Read a Bridge (Not Two, 2014)Site Specific (Audiographic Records, 2015)Momentum 1: Stone (Audiographic Records, 2016) [ 3] Escalator (Not Two, 2017)Momentum 4: Consequent Duos 2015>2019 (Audiographic Records/Catalytic Sounds , 2019) [ 3] 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)DKV Trio (Hamid Drake /Kent Kessler /Ken Vandermark) [ 4] [ 5] [ 6]
Fred Anderson / DKV Trio (Okka Disk, 1997) Baraka (Okka Disk, 1997)DKV Live (limited edition - Okka Disk, 1997) Deep Telling (Okka Disk, 1999) - with Joe Morris Live in Wels & Chicago, 1998 (Okka Disk, 1999)Trigonometry (Okka Disk, 2002) AALY Trio /DKV Trio: Double or Nothing (Okka Disk, 2002) Past Present (Not Two, 2012)Schl8hof (Trost, 2013) - with Mats Gustafsson , Massimo Pupillo , Paal Nilssen-Love Sound in Motion in Sound (Not Two, 2014)Collider (Not Two, 2016)(Mats Gustafsson /Peter Janson/Kjell Nordeson + Ken Vandermark) [ 7]
Spaceways Inc. (Hamid Drake , Ken Vandermark)
Thirteen Cosmic Standards (Atavistic, 2000)Version Soul (Atavistic, 2002)Radiale (Atavistic, 2004) - with ZuSchool 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 ] [ 1]
Live at the Glenn Miller Cafe (Okka Disk, 2002)Underground (Okka Disk, 2004)Cuts (Okka Disk, 2005)Montage (Okka Disk, 2006)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)(Tim Daisy [ de ]
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)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)DEK Trio (Elisabeth Harnik [ de ] Didi Kern [ de ] [ 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] Other collaborations Joe McPhee /Ken Vandermark/Kent Kessler: A Meeting in Chicago (Eighth Day Music, 1997; Okka Disk reissue) [ 1] Joe Morris /Ken Vandermark/Hans Poppel: Like Rays (Knitting Factory , 1998) Paul Lytton /Ken Vandermark: English Suites (Wobbly Rail, 2000) Pipeline (Corbett vs. Dempsey , 2000, issued 2013) Pandelis Karayorgis /Nate McBride [ de ] No Such Thing (Boxholder, 2001) Ken Vandermark & Brian Dibblee [ de ] Duets (Future Reference, 2003) Gold Sparkle Trio + Ken Vandermark: Brooklyn Cantos (Squealer, 2004) Rutherford/Vandermark/Müller/van der Schyff: Hoxha (Spool, 2005) Marcin Oleś /Bartłomiej Brat Oleś [ de ] Ideas (Not Two, 2005) Morris/Vandermark/Gray: Rebus (Clean Feed, 2007) Vandermark/Karayorgis: Foreground Music (Okka Disk, 2007) Broo/Lane/Nilssen-Love/Vandermark: 4 Corners (Clean Feed, 2007) The Thing + Ken Vandermark: Immediate Sound (Smalltown Supersound, 2007) Ab Baars Trio + Ken Vandermark: Goofy June Bug (Wig, 2008) C.O.D.E.: Play the Music of Ornette Coleman & Eric Dolphy (Cracked An Egg, 2008) Vandermark/Guy/Sanders: Fox Fire (Maya, 2009) Reed Trio: Last Train to the First Station (Kilogram, 2011) Full Blast and Friends: Sketches and Ballads (Trost, 2011) Paul Lytton/Nate Wooley [ de ] Ikue Mori /Ken Vandermark: The Nows (Clean Feed, 2012) Vandermark/Gustafsson: Verses (Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2013) Rara Avis: Mutations / Multicellular Mutations (dEN, 2013) The Ex & Brass Unbound: Enormous Door (Ex Records, 2013) Vandermark/Grubbs: Parallax Sounds (Just Temptation, 2014) Ken Vandermak & Nate Wooley Duo: East by Northwest (Audiographic/Pleasure of the Text, 2014) Ken Vandermak & Nate Wooley Duo: All Directions Home (Audiographic/Pleasure of the Text, 2015) [ 3] Rara Avis: Rara Avis (Not Two, 2015) Barry Guy /Ken Vandermark: Occasional Poems (Not Two, 2015) Mars Williams /Dave Rempis /Ken Vandermark/[Nick Mazzarella [ de ] Western Automatic (Aerophonic Records, 2015) Lasse Marhaug /Ken Vandermark: Close Up (Audiographic Records, 2016) Terrie Hessels /Ken Vandermark: Splinters (Audiographic Records, 2016) Shelter (Steve Heather [ de ] Jasper Stadhouders [ de ] Shelter (Audiographic Records, 2017) [ 3] Tim Daisy [ de ] Michael Thieke /Ken Vandermark: Triptych (Catalytic Sound , 2017) [ 3] Rutherford/Vandermark/Müller/van der Schyff: Are We in Diego? (WhirrbooM!, 2018) VWCR: Ken Vandermark/Nate Wooley/Sylvie Courvoisier /Tom Rainey : Noise Of Our Time (Intakt Records , 2018) [ 15] Ken Vandermark/Michael Snow :Vandermark & Snow: DUOL (Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2019) [ 3] As sideman With Jeb Bishop
98 Duets (Wobbly Rail, 1998)With Boxhead Ensemble
With Peter Brötzmann - The Chicago Octet/Tentet/Tentet Plus Two
The Chicago Octet/Tentet (Okka Disk, 1998) Stone/Water (Okka Disk, 2000)Two Lightboxes (2000)Broken English (Okka Disk, 2002)Short Visit to Nowhere (Okka Disk, 2002)Images (Okka Disk, 2004)Signs (Okka Disk, 2004)Be Music, Night (Okka Disk, 2005) American Landscapes 1 (Okka Disk, 2007) American Landscapes 2 (Okka Disk, 2007)At Molde 2007 (Okka Disk, 2008) 3 Nights in Oslo (Smalltown Supersound, 2010)Walk, Love, Sleep (Smalltown Supersound, 2012)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)References 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Okka Disk Titles" . Okka Disk. Retrieved November 23, 2019 . ↑ "Okka Disk" . Okka Disk. Archived from the original on January 21, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2019 . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 "New Recordings" . Ken Vandermark. 2019. Retrieved November 22, 2019 . ↑ "DKV Trio (Active)" . Ken Vandermark. 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2018 . ↑ "DKV Trio – Night One" . Elastic Arts Foundation . 2019. Archived from the original on November 23, 2019. Retrieved November 22, 2019 . ↑ Guthartz, Jason (July 7, 2013). "Hamid Drake Discography" . Retrieved November 23, 2019 . ↑ Hidden in the Stomach Silkheart ↑ Lean Left (2009), Volume 1 , Smalltown Supersound ↑ Margasak, Peter (February 1, 2018). "Veteran Chicago reedist adapts a mentor role in his visceral new Chicago quintet Marker" . Chicago Reader . Retrieved April 9, 2018 . ↑ Wall, Patrick (February 1, 2018). "With Marker, Ken Vandermark Synthesizes Sounds to Manipulate Memory" . Free Times (Columbia, South Carolina ). Retrieved April 9, 2018 . ↑ "Marker: Roadwork 1 / Roadwork 2 / Homework 1" . Audiographic Records. 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2019 . ↑ Lindqvist, Gustav (August 6, 2018). "Marker: Roadwork 1 / Roadwork 2 / Homework 1" . The Free Jazz Collective . Retrieved November 22, 2019 . ↑ "Better A Rook Than A Pawn by Edition Redux" . bandcamp . 2023. Retrieved February 6, 2024 . ↑ "Broadcast Transformer by Edition Redux" . bandcamp . 2025. Retrieved April 10, 2025 . ↑ "VWCR: Ken Vandermark/Nate Wooley/Sylvie Courvoisier/Tom Rainey: Noise Of Our Time" . Intakt Records. September 2018. Retrieved September 26, 2023 . ↑ Masters, Marc; Currin, Grayson (June 20, 2013). "The Legacy of Loren Connors" . Pitchfork . Retrieved February 24, 2021 . ↑ Meyer, Bill (November 10, 2020). "Essential New Music: Luke Stewart's "Luke Stewart Exposure Quintet" . Magnet . Retrieved February 1, 2021 . External links
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