Ken Vandermark
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Ken Vandermark – Cover to Cover (for Frank Butler)
Biography
Massachusetts, United States (1964 – present)
He grew up in Massachusetts, graduating from Natick High School. He performed and led groups while in high school and at McGill University in Montreal which he attended from 1982 to 1986. He is mostly self-taught as a musician, but studied intermittently with George Garzone in the early 1980s.
Returning to the Boston area after graduation, he led or co-led groups (including Lombard Street and Mr. Furious) in Boston. Compositions/arrangements for the Boston-based groups set the groundwork for and predicted approaches to recordings and live performances developed in Chicago. Although a trio, Lombard Street incorporated “suite forms” characteristic of later arrangements for groups of both substantial and limited instrumentation. Vandermark’s “dedication pieces” are found first in Lombard Street performances, as in the case of “The Politics of Sound,” which was dedicated to the musicians in Boston-based ensembles Shock Exchange, The Fringe, and the Joe Morris Trio. Works performed by Mr. Furious, such as “Cold Coffee,” include some of the most convincing early examples of Vandermark’s signature free-ranging charts. Developed further in Barrage Double Trio (e.g., “Agamemnon Sleeps”) this simultaneously linear and episodic perspective on arrangement broadly has been the overarching architecture in most of his works for large-ensembles since that time.
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waiting for 27 may in Moscow to listen live again =)
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restinagony
One of my favourite reed players.
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Great musician.
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perfect!!!
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i found their music this week!awesome:)
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gurallo
One of the best Artists that I've ever heard.
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MostAncientOne
I used to see Ken and the Vandermark 5 play almost every tuesday at the Empty Bottle in Chicago for years...I can't recall a single show that wasn't incredible in its own way. Not to mention the seemingly endless array of bands/projects he assembled with first-class creative musicians...Truly a man of unsurpassed drive and passion - an inspiration to many.
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handmeups
I only recently heard about him from a documentary that was on TV, and now I'm very interested, I loved what I heard.
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Genius.
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