Oslo is a second home base for the Chicagoan relentless reed player Ken Vandermark, and the BLÅ club is where you usually can find Vandermark performs in this chilly and most beautiful city. On the ...

In the Daniel Kraus documentary on Ken Vandermark, the saxophonist is shown writing music, organizing tours, traveling to and playing gigs, the typical life of the titular Musician. What comes out of ...

The episodic partnership of reeds player Ken Vandermark and drummer Tim Daisy is an ongoing study in ceaseless change. Since Daisy joined the Vandermark 5 at the end of 2001, the two of them have ...

For many years reedist Ken Vandermark was one of the main engines driving Chicago’s improvised-music scene. He played all the time in loads of contexts, and regularly formed new configurations; along ...

Know that every time percussionist Tim Daisy comes around, he’ll have something special in his playbook. The first time we talked, back in 2009, it was Gray Scale, that monolithic piece written ...

Sign up for City Lights, our twice-weekly guide to arts and nightlife in the D.C. area. It lands in your inbox every Sunday and Thursday. Saxophonist Ken Vandermark ...

“In Germany we still get called ‘anarcho punk,’ ” he says. “The only problem with labels is they do not open people’s minds, or make people curious. These labels tend to reduce our music. We all ...

It would take a hefty volume to chronicle all the far-flung ensembles in which Chicago reedist Ken Vandermark has performed and recorded. But one of the most intriguing will make its Chicago debut ...

Chicago saxophonist Ken Vandermark is the great populist of avant-garde jazz. When most listeners think of the diverse music grouped under the avant-garde umbrella, grating dissonance, atonal ...

A trailer for the new documentary Musician calls the versatile saxophonist and composer Ken Vandermark Chicago’s hardest-working musician. That’s a fitting description, considering his nearly 100 ...

Saxophonist Ken Vandermark — widely regarded as one of the most creative and prolific forces in free jazz and improvised ...