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)[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, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten & Wilbert De Joode: Collected Fiction (Okka Disk, 2009)[1]
 - The Frame Quartet (Tim Daisy/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 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)[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)
 
AALY Trio + Ken Vandermark
    
(Mats Gustafsson/Peter Janson/Kjell Nordeson + Ken Vandermark)[7]
- 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)[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/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/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]
- 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
    
    
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)[3]
- An International Report (Audiographic, 2014)
 - The Midwest School (Audiographic, 2014)
 - What Thomas Bernhard Saw (Audiographic, 2015)[3]
 
DEK Trio
    
(Elisabeth Harnik/Didi Kern/Ken Vandermark)[3]
Marker
    
(Ken Vandermark/Macie Stewart/Steve Marquette/Andrew Clinkman/Phil Sudderberg)
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/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)
 - 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: 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)[3]
 - Tim Daisy/Michael Thieke/Ken Vandermark: Triptych (Catalytic Sound, 2017)[3]
 - 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
- 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)
 
- Neutrons (Quarterstick, 1997)
 
- Constructive Destruction (ugEXPLODE, 1994)
 - Destroy All Music (ugEXPLODE, 1994)
 
With Alan Licht & Loren Mazzacane Connors
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)[14]
 
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
    
    
References
    
- "Okka Disk Titles". Okka Disk. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
 - "Okka Disk". Okka Disk. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
 - "New Recordings". Ken Vandermark. 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
 - "DKV Trio (Active)". Ken Vandermark. 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
 - "DKV Trio – Night One". Elastic Arts Foundation. 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
 - Guthartz, Jason (July 7, 2013). "Hamid Drake Discography". Retrieved 2019-11-23.
 - Hidden in the Stomach at 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 2018-04-09.
 - Wall, Patrick (February 1, 2018). "With Marker, Ken Vandermark Synthesizes Sounds to Manipulate Memory". Free Times (Columbia, South Carolina). Retrieved 2018-04-09.
 - "Marker: Roadwork 1 / Roadwork 2 / Homework 1". Audiographic Records. 2018. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
 - Lindqvist, Gustav (August 6, 2018). "Marker: Roadwork 1 / Roadwork 2 / Homework 1". The Free Jazz Collective. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
 - Masters, Marc; Currin, Grayson (20 June 2013). "The Legacy of Loren Connors". Pitchfork. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
 - Meyer, Bill (10 November 2020). "Essential New Music: Luke Stewart's "Luke Stewart Exposure Quintet"". Magnet. Retrieved 1 February 2021.