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<p><b>Ken Vandermark</b> (* <a href="22._September" title="22. September">22. September</a> <a href="1964" title="1964">1964</a> in <a href="Warwick_(Rhode_Island)" title="Warwick (Rhode Island)">Warwick</a>, <a href="Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a>, <a href="USA" class="mw-redirect" title="USA">USA</a>) ist ein US-amerikanischer <a href="Jazz" title="Jazz">Jazz</a><a href="Saxofonist" class="mw-redirect" title="Saxofonist">saxofonist</a> und <a href="Klarinettist" class="mw-redirect" title="Klarinettist">Klarinettist</a>. Er lebt seit 1989 in <a href="Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>.
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<p>Vandermark spielte in seiner Jugend Trompete und wechselte dann zum Saxophon. Er studierte dann in <a href="Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a> und <a href="Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a>, wo er mit eigenen Formationen arbeitete; er ließ sich dann in <a href="Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a> nieder, wo er in den 1990er Jahren vorwiegend in der dortigen Avantgarde-Szene arbeitete und zunächst mit der <a href="Fusion_(Musik)" title="Fusion (Musik)">Noisejazz</a>-Band <i><a href="The_Flying_Luttenbachers" title="The Flying Luttenbachers">The Flying Luttenbachers</a></i> auftrat.
</p><p>Er hat mit vielen anderen Jazzmusikern Platten aufgenommen, z. B. mit <a href="Hal_Russell" title="Hal Russell">Hal Russell</a>, <a href="Paul_Lytton" title="Paul Lytton">Paul Lytton</a>, <a href="Marcin_Ole%C5%9B" title="Marcin Oleś">Marcin Oleś</a>, <a href="Bart%C5%82omiej_Ole%C5%9B" title="Bartłomiej Oleś">Bartłomiej Oleś</a>, <a href="Joe_Morris_(Gitarrist)" title="Joe Morris (Gitarrist)">Joe Morris</a>, <a href="Misha_Mengelberg" title="Misha Mengelberg">Misha Mengelberg</a> (<i><a href="Two_Days_in_Chicago" title="Two Days in Chicago">Two Days in Chicago</a></i>, 1999), <a href="Peter_Br%C3%B6tzmann" title="Peter Brötzmann">Peter Brötzmann</a> Chicago Tentet (<i><a href="Signs_(Album)" title="Signs (Album)">Signs</a></i>, 2004) und <a href="Paul_Lovens" title="Paul Lovens">Paul Lovens</a>. Er hat auch eigene <a href="Jazz-Combo" title="Jazz-Combo">Jazz-Combos</a> geleitet: <i>Free Fall</i>, <i>Free Music Ensemble</i>, <i>Territory Band</i> (großes Orchester mit wechselnden Besetzungen) und die <i>Vandermark 5</i>. Mit <a href="Klaus_Kugel" title="Klaus Kugel">Klaus Kugel</a> und <a href="Mark_Tokar" title="Mark Tokar">Mark Tokar</a> bildet er das Trio <i>The Escalators</i>. 2019 war er Mitglied im <a href="Luke_Stewart_Exposure_Quintet" title="Luke Stewart Exposure Quintet">Luke Stewart Exposure Quintet</a>. Mit <a href="Matthias_Muche" title="Matthias Muche">Matthias Muche</a>, <a href="Thomas_Lehn" title="Thomas Lehn">Thomas Lehn</a> und <a href="Martin_Blume_(Musiker)" title="Martin Blume (Musiker)">Martin Blume</a> bildet er das Free Jazz Quartett <i>Soundbridges</i>.
</p><p>1999 erhielt Vandermark das <a href="MacArthur_Fellowship" title="MacArthur Fellowship">MacArthur-Fellowship-Stipendium</a>.
</p><p>2007 erschien die <a href="Dokumentation" title="Dokumentation">Dokumentation</a> <i>Musician</i> des <a href="Regisseur" title="Regisseur">Regisseurs</a> Daniel Kraus über den Alltag eines Jazzmusikers am Beispiel Vandermarks.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Diskographische_Hinweise">Diskographische Hinweise</h2></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Vandermark_5">The Vandermark 5</h3></div>
<ul><li><i><a href="Single_Piece_Flow" title="Single Piece Flow">Single Piece Flow</a></i> (Atavistic, 1997)</li>
<li><i><a href="Target_or_Flag" title="Target or Flag">Target or Flag</a></i> (Atavistic, 1998)</li>
<li><i><a href="Simpatico_(Album)" title="Simpatico (Album)">Simpatico</a></i> (Atavistic, 1999)</li>
<li><i><a href="Burn_the_Incline" title="Burn the Incline">Burn the Incline</a></i> (Atavistic, 2000)</li>
<li><i><a href="Acoustic_Machine" title="Acoustic Machine">Acoustic Machine</a></i> (Atavistic, 2001)</li>
<li><i>Free Jazz Classics Vol. 1 & 2</i> (Atavistic, 2002)</li>
<li><i><a href="Airports_for_Light" title="Airports for Light">Airports for Light</a></i> (Atavistic, 2003)</li>
<li><i><a href="Elements_of_Style/Exercises_in_Surprise" title="Elements of Style/Exercises in Surprise">Elements of Style/Exercises in Surprise</a></i> (Atavistic, 2004)</li>
<li><i>Alchemia</i> (Not Two, 2005)</li>
<li><i><a href="The_Color_of_Memory" title="The Color of Memory">The Color of Memory</a></i> (Atavistic, 2005)</li>
<li><i>Free Jazz Classics Vol. 3 & 4</i> (Atavistic, 2005)</li>
<li><i><a href="A_Discontinuous_Line" title="A Discontinuous Line">A Discontinuous Line</a></i> (Atavistic, 2006)</li>
<li><i>Four Sides to the Story</i> (Not Two, 2006)</li>
<li><i><a href="Beat_Reader" title="Beat Reader">Beat Reader</a></i> (Atavistic, 2008)</li>
<li><i><a href="Annular_Gift" title="Annular Gift">Annular Gift</a></i> (Not Two, 2009)</li>
<li><i><a href="The_Horse_Jumps_and_the_Ship_Is_Gone" title="The Horse Jumps and the Ship Is Gone">The Horse Jumps and the Ship Is Gone</a></i> (Not Two, 2010)</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Weitere_Alben">Weitere Alben</h3></div>
<ul><li><i>International Front</i> (<a href="Okka_Disk" title="Okka Disk">Okka Disk</a>, 1994)</li>
<li><i>Ulitlity Hitter</i> (Quinnah, 1995)</li>
<li>DKV Trio: <i><a href="Live_in_Wels_and_Chicago%2C_1998" title="Live in Wels and Chicago, 1998">Live in Wels and Chicago, 1998</a></i> (1999)</li>
<li>School Days: <i><a href="In_Our_Times" title="In Our Times">In Our Times</a></i> (2002)</li>
<li>FME: <i><a href="Underground_(FME-Album)" title="Underground (FME-Album)">Underground</a></i> (2004), mit Nate McBride, Paal Nilssen-Love</li>
<li>Free Fall: <i>Free Fall: Furnace</i> (2003), mit Havard Wiik, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten</li>
<li>Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet: <i><a href="Be_Music%2C_Night" title="Be Music, Night">Be Music, Night</a></i> (2005)</li>
<li>Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love: <i><a href="Seven_(Vandermark/Nilssen-Love-Album)" title="Seven (Vandermark/Nilssen-Love-Album)">Seven</a></i> (2006)</li>
<li>Ken Vandermark & <a href="Pandelis_Karayorgis" title="Pandelis Karayorgis">Pandelis Karayorgis</a>: <i><a href="Foreground_Music" title="Foreground Music">Foreground Music</a></i> (Okka, 2007)</li>
<li>Joe Morris, Ken Vandermark & Luther Gray: <i><a href="Rebus_(Album)" title="Rebus (Album)">Rebus</a></i> (Clean Feed, 2007)</li>
<li>The Thing mit Ken Vandermark <i><a href="Immediate_Sound" title="Immediate Sound">Immediate Sound</a></i> (2007), mit <a href="Mats_Gustafsson" title="Mats Gustafsson">Mats Gustafsson</a>, <a href="Ingebrigt_H%C3%A5ker_Flaten" title="Ingebrigt Håker Flaten">Ingebrigt Håker Flaten</a>, <a href="Paal_Nilssen-Love" title="Paal Nilssen-Love">Paal Nilssen-Love</a></li>
<li>Ken Vandermark with <a href="Kent_Kessler" title="Kent Kessler">Kent Kessler</a> / <a href="Ingebrigt_H%C3%A5ker_Flaten" title="Ingebrigt Håker Flaten">Ingebrigt Håker Flaten</a> / <a href="Nate_McBride" title="Nate McBride">Nate McBride</a> / <a href="Wilbert_de_Joode" title="Wilbert de Joode">Wilbert de Joode</a>: Collected Fiction bei Discogs<i><a href="Collected_Fiction" title="Collected Fiction">Collected Fiction</a></i> (2009)</li>
<li>Lean Left: <i><a href="Lean_Left_Volume_1" title="Lean Left Volume 1">Lean Left Volume 1</a></i> (2010, mit <a href="Terrie_Ex" title="Terrie Ex">Terrie Ex</a>, <a href="Andy_Moor_(Gitarrist)" title="Andy Moor (Gitarrist)">Andy Moor</a>, Paal Nilssen-Love)</li>
<li>Reed Trio: <i>Last Train to the First Station</i> (Kilogram Records 2011) mit <a href="Miko%C5%82aj_Trzaska" title="Mikołaj Trzaska">Mikołaj Trzaska</a>, <a href="Wac%C5%82aw_Zimpel" title="Wacław Zimpel">Wacław Zimpel</a></li>
<li>Free Fall: <i>Gray Scale</i> (Smalltown Superjazz, 2011) mit <a href="H%C3%A5vard_Wiik" title="Håvard Wiik">Håvard Wiik</a></li>
<li>Full Blast & Friends: <i><a href="Sketches_and_Ballads" title="Sketches and Ballads">Sketches and Ballads</a></i> (2012)</li>
<li>Side A: <i><a href="A_New_Margin" title="A New Margin">A New Margin</a></i> (Clean Feed, 2012), Ken Vandermark, <a href="H%C3%A5vard_Wiik" title="Håvard Wiik">Håvard Wiik</a>, <a href="Chad_Taylor_(Schlagzeuger)" title="Chad Taylor (Schlagzeuger)">Chad Taylor</a></li>
<li>Chicago Reed Quartet: <a href="Nick_Mazzarella" title="Nick Mazzarella">Nick Mazzarella</a>, <a href="Dave_Rempis" title="Dave Rempis">Dave Rempis</a>, <a href="Mars_Williams" title="Mars Williams">Mars Williams</a>, Ken Vandermark: <i><a href="Western_Automatic_(Album)" title="Western Automatic (Album)">Western Automatic</a></i> (Aerophonic, 2015)</li>
<li>Ken Vandermark Resonance Ensemble: <i><a href="Double_Arc" title="Double Arc">Double Arc</a></i> (2015)</li>
<li><a href="Barry_Guy" title="Barry Guy">Barry Guy</a> / Ken Vandermark: <i><a href="Occasional_Poems" title="Occasional Poems">Occasional Poems</a></i> (2015)</li>
<li>Ken Vandermark & Lasse Marhaug: <i>Close Up (For Abbas Kiarostami)</i> (Systems vs. Artifacts/Audiographic Records, 2016)</li>
<li>Ken Vandermark & <a href="Terrie_Ex" title="Terrie Ex">Terrie Hessels</a>: <i>Splinters</i> (Systems vs. Artifacts/Audiographic Records, 2016)</li>
<li><i><a href="Made_to_Break%3A_F4_Fake" title="Made to Break: F4 Fake">Made to Break: F4 Fake</a></i> (Trost, 2019)</li>
<li><i><a href="Momentum_4%3A_Consequent_Duos_2015-2019" title="Momentum 4: Consequent Duos 2015-2019">Momentum 4: Consequent Duos 2015-2019</a></i> (Audiographic, 2019)</li>
<li>Entr’acte: <i><a href="Soigne_ta_droite" title="Soigne ta droite">Soigne ta droite</a></i> (Audiographic, 2019)</li>
<li>Ken Vandermark/Nate Wooley/<a href="Sylvie_Courvoisier" title="Sylvie Courvoisier">Sylvie Courvoisier</a>/<a href="Tom_Rainey" title="Tom Rainey">Tom Rainey</a>: <i><a href="Noise_of_Our_Time" title="Noise of Our Time">Noise of Our Time</a></i> (Intakt, 2019)</li>
<li><i><a href="Momentum_5%3A_Stammer_(Triptych)" title="Momentum 5: Stammer (Triptych)">Momentum 5: Stammer (Triptych)</a></i> (2021)</li>
<li><i><a href="The_Field_within_a_Line" title="The Field within a Line">The Field within a Line</a></i> (2021) solo</li>
<li>Paal Nilssen-Love & Ken Vandermark: <i><a href="Japan_2019" title="Japan 2019">Japan 2019</a></i> (2024)</li>
<li><a href="Ivo_Perelman" title="Ivo Perelman">Ivo Perelman</a>, Ken Vandermark, <a href="Joe_McPhee" title="Joe McPhee">Joe McPhee</a>: <i><a href="Oxygen_(Album)" title="Oxygen (Album)">Oxygen</a></i> (Mahakala Music, 2025)</li>
<li><a href="Mats_Gustafsson" title="Mats Gustafsson">Mats Gustafsson</a> / Ken Vandermark / <a href="Tomeka_Reid" title="Tomeka Reid">Tomeka Reid</a> / <a href="Chad_Taylor_(Schlagzeuger)" title="Chad Taylor (Schlagzeuger)">Chad Taylor</a>: <i><a href="Pivot_(Gustafsson-Vandermark-Reid-Taylor-Album)" title="Pivot (Gustafsson-Vandermark-Reid-Taylor-Album)">Pivot</a></i> (Silkheart, 2025)</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Lexikalischer_Eintrag">Lexikalischer Eintrag</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Richard_Cook" title="Richard Cook">Richard Cook</a>, <a href="Brian_Morton" title="Brian Morton">Brian Morton</a>: <i><a href="The_Penguin_Guide_to_Jazz" title="The Penguin Guide to Jazz">The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings</a>.</i> 8. Auflage. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9.</li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.imdb.de/title/tt1074646/"><i>Musician</i> in der Internet Movie Database</a></span>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kenvandermark.com/">Offizielle Website</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000766454"><span>Ken Vandermark</span></a> bei <a href="AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a> (englisch)</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://tisue.net/vandermark/">Diskografie (1984–2006)</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.workseries.com/musician/">Informationen zur Dokumentation „Musician“</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.npr.org/artists/129070665/ken-vandermark">Vandermark bei NPR</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/Ken+Vandermark">Ken Vandermark</a> bei <a href="Discogs" title="Discogs">Discogs</a></li></ul>
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