Ken Vandermark discography

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

Ken Vandermark

• Caffeine (Jim Baker/Steve Hunt/Ken Vandermark):Caffeine (Okka Disk, 1994)
• Standards (Quinnah, 1995)
• Steelwool Trio (Ken Vandermark/Kent Kessler/Curt Newton): International Front (Okka Disk, 1995)
• 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)
• 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)
• Bridge 61: Journal (Atavistic, 2006)
• Ken Vandermark, Kent Kessler, Nate McBride, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten & Wilbert De Joode: Collected Fiction (Okka Disk, 2009)
• The Frame Quartet (Tim Daisy/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Nate McBride/Ken Vandermark): 35 mm (Okka Disk, 2009)
• iTi (Johannes Bauer/Ken Vandermark/Paal Nilssen-Love/Thomas Lehn): Artifact: Live In St. Johann (Okka Disk, 2010)
• 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)
• Nine Ways to Read a Bridge (Not Two, 2014)
• Site Specific (Audiographic Records, 2015)
• Momentum 1: Stone (Audiographic Records, 2016)
• Escalator (Not Two, 2017)
• Momentum 4: Consequent Duos 2015>2019 (Audiographic Records/Catalytic Sounds, 2019)

The Vandermark Quartet

• Big Head Eddie (Platypus, 1993)
• Solid Action (Platypus, 1994)

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

• All Night Burner (Estrus, 1997)
• Funky-Do! (Estrus, 1999)

DKV Trio

(Hamid Drake/Kent Kessler/Ken Vandermark)

• 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)

AALY Trio + Ken Vandermark

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

• Hidden in the Stomach (Silkheart, 1998)
• Stumble (Wobbly Rail, 1998)
• Live at the Glenn Miller Café (Wobbly Rail, 1999)
• I Wonder If I Was Screaming (Crazy Wisdom, 2000)

Sound in Action Trio

• Design in Time (Delmark, 1999)
• Gate (Atavistic, 2006)

Tripleplay

• Expansion Slang (Boxholder, 2000)
• Gambit (Clean Feed, 2004)

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)

• 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

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/Ken Vandermark)

• 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)

• 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/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)

• Volume 1 (Smalltown Supersound, 2009/Catalytic Sound, 2010)
• Volume 2 (Smalltown Supersound, 2010)
• Live at Cafe Oto (Unsounds, 2012)
• Live at Cafe Oto Day One with Ab Baars (Catalytic Sound, 2012)
• Live at Cafe Oto Day Two with Steve Noble (Catalytic Sound, 2012)
• Live at Area Sismica (Unsounds, 2014)

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

The Margots

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

Audio One

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

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

DEK Trio

(Elisabeth Harnik/Didi Kern/Ken Vandermark)

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

Marker

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

• Wired for Sound (Audiographic, 2018)
• Roadwork 1 / Roadwork 2 / Homework 1 3-CD set (Audiographic, 2018)

Edition Redux

(Erez Dessel/Lily Finnegan/Beth McDonald/Ken Vandermark)

• Better a Rook Than a Pawn (Audiographic, 2023)

Other collaborations

• Joe McPhee/Ken Vandermark/Kent Kessler: A Meeting in Chicago (Eighth Day Music, 1997; Okka Disk reissue)
• 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/Ken Vandermark: No Such Thing (Boxholder, 2001)
• Ken Vandermark & Brian Dibblee: 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/Ken Vandermark: '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 + 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)
• Rara Avis: Rara Avis (Not Two, 2015)
• Barry Guy/Ken Vandermark: Occasional Poems (Not Two, 2015)
• Mars Williams/Dave Rempis/Ken Vandermark/[[[Nick Mazzarella]]: 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/Jasper Stadhouders/Ken Vandermark/Nate Wooley): Shelter (Audiographic Records, 2017)
• Tim Daisy/Michael Thieke/Ken Vandermark: Triptych (Catalytic Sound, 2017)
• 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)
• Ken Vandermark/Michael Snow :Vandermark & Snow: DUOL (Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2019)

As sideman

With Jeb Bishop

• 98 Duets (Wobbly Rail, 1998)

With Boxhead Ensemble

• Dutch Harbor – Where the Sea Breaks Its Back (Atavistic, 1997)
• The Last Place to Go (Atavistic, 1998)

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

• Neutrons (Quarterstick, 1997)

With The Flying Luttenbachers

• Constructive Destruction (ugEXPLODE, 1994)
• Destroy All Music (ugEXPLODE, 1994)

With Alan Licht & Loren Mazzacane Connors

• Hoffman Estates (Drag City, 1998)

With Misha Mengelberg

• Two Days in Chicago (hatOLOGY, 1999)

With the NRG Ensemble

• Calling All Mothers (Quinnah, 1994)
• This Is My House (Delmark, 1996)
• Bejazzo Gets a Facelift (Atavistic, 1998)

With Eric Revis

• Parallax (Clean Feed, 2013)

With Luke Stewart Exposure Quintet

• Luke Stewart Exposure Quintet (Astral Spirits, 2020)

With Witches & Devils

• At the Empty Bottle (Knitting Factory, 2000)

Guest appearances

• Syl Johnson: Back in the Game (Delmark, 1994)
• Gastr del Sol: Camoufleur (1998)
• Pinetop Seven: Rigging the Toplights (1998)
• Superchunk: Come Pick Me Up (1999)
• Portastatic feat. Ken Vandermark/Tim Mulvenna: The Perfect Little Door (Merge, 2001)
• Zu: Igneo (2002)

See also

• List of experimental big bands

External links

• Official site
• Ken Vandermark Discography (1984-2006)