fsFreeJazzFestival Saarbrücken 2026: Fünf Tage improvisierte Musik
https://jazzpages.de/freejazzfestival-saarbruecken-2026-fuenf-tage-freie-improvisierte-musik-2512312/
Brian Lavelle has moved#NowPlaying Susan Alcorn / Joe McPhee / Ken Vandermark - Invitation to a Dream
Loving this first trio recording of three remarkable players, including Susan Alcorn who died earlier this year. The album title is so fitting: this is a bright portal into an otherworldly, spiritual space, all beautifully recorded.
“We lovingly dedicate this album to refugees, immigrants, and the persecuted wherever they may be.” YES!
#SusanAlcorn #JoeMcPhee #KenVandermark #AstralSpirits
https://alcornmcpheevandermark.bandcamp.com/album/invitation-to-a-dream
Invitation To A Dream, by Alcorn / McPhee / Vandermark
7 track album
Paul SemelWhile iconic jazz saxophonist Ivo Perelman has been free jazz adjacent, he gets really out there on his new album "Oxygen," on which he teams with bari saxophonist Ken Vandermark and trombone player Joe McPhee. Here's the link to my review.
https://paulsemel.com/ivo-perelman-ken-vandermark-joe-mcphee-oxygen-review/
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#IvoPerelman #KenVandermark #JoeMcPhee #IvoPerelmanOxygen #KenVandermarkOxygen #JoeMcPheeOxygen #IvoPerelman #KenVandermark #JoeMcPhee #jazz #FreeJazz
https://paulsemel.com/ivo-perelman-ken-vandermark-joe-mcphee-oxygen-review/
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#IvoPerelman #KenVandermark #JoeMcPhee #IvoPerelmanOxygen #KenVandermarkOxygen #JoeMcPheeOxygen #IvoPerelman #KenVandermark #JoeMcPhee #jazz #FreeJazz
Paul SemelWhile iconic jazz saxophonist Ivo Perelman has been free jazz adjacent, he gets really out there on his new album "Oxygen," on which he teams with bari saxophonist Ken Vandermark and trombone player Joe McPhee. Here's the link to my review.
https://paulsemel.com/ivo-perelman-ken-vandermark-joe-mcphee-oxygen-review/
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#IvoPerelman #KenVandermark #JoeMcPhee #IvoPerelmanOxygen #KenVandermarkOxygen #JoeMcPheeOxygen #IvoPerelmanOxygenReview #KenVandermarkOxygenReview #JoeMcPheeOxygenReview #IvoPerelman #KenVandermark #JoeMcPhee #jazz #FreeJazz #IvoPerelmanKenVandermarkJoeMcPheeOxygen #IvoPerelmanKenVandermarkJoeMcPheeOxygenReview
https://paulsemel.com/ivo-perelman-ken-vandermark-joe-mcphee-oxygen-review/
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#IvoPerelman #KenVandermark #JoeMcPhee #IvoPerelmanOxygen #KenVandermarkOxygen #JoeMcPheeOxygen #IvoPerelmanOxygenReview #KenVandermarkOxygenReview #JoeMcPheeOxygenReview #IvoPerelman #KenVandermark #JoeMcPhee #jazz #FreeJazz #IvoPerelmanKenVandermarkJoeMcPheeOxygen #IvoPerelmanKenVandermarkJoeMcPheeOxygenReview
Dave NanianJim O’Rourke - Insignificance
There’s a weird six-degrees-of-Ken-Vandermark game you can play with most Chicago-based artists, especially those who have dabbled in the avant garde.
Here, O’Rourke (as with all his “Roeg Albums”) leans into pop structure and melodies and produces something delightfully listenable. Vandermark plays sax on “therefore, I am”.
This album, BTW, is on sale at NotTwo for 10 Euros…along with a bunch of other stuff at 50% off.
Resonance Ensemble (Ken Vandermark) - Resonance
Live concert recorded at the Maria Zankovietska Theatre in Lviv, Ukraine back in 2007, this is a bit of a vinyl complement to the full 10-CD set I've got from the ensemble that includes everything they did.
This is the final concert recorded of the set, where the 10-member group (from the US, Ukraine, Poland and Sweden) had meshed well, and were warmly received, for good reason.
Ken's albums can't just be "put on”. Without attention, they can be grating—a dentist drill in the other room.
But I continue to try to figure it out. And listening to two older recordings, both by the Vandermark 5, maybe I'm starting to get it?
Those are 1997’s Single Piece Flow (unavailable on vinyl - on CD/streaming), and Four Sides to the Story (2 LP box set on Not Two from 2005 - unavailable on anything but vinyl, but $20 on Discogs, direct from Poland).
A particular musical blind spot of mine is (and I think I've mentioned this before) free jazz.
Leaving aside Ornette Coleman, who has had many styles, the free jazz artist I'm most familiar with is Ken Vandermark, who I've seen in concert a few times, in various combos.
I've always enjoyed those—even the most abstract art is still art, and performance is a joy—it's hard to grok. Overblowing, dissonance, seeming randomness…structureless improv is hard.
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XrisJim O'Rourke - "Insignificance" (2001)
I had not listened to this in a very long time. It's great.
#JimORourke #NowPlaying #RobMazurek #KenVandermark #JeffTweedy #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecord
