Saturday, September 10th
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Paul Lytton (1947-, drums), Ken Vandermark (1964-, reeds), Nate Wooley (1974-, trumpet), live, Rochester, New York, 4/20/22
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2022
Monday, May 23rd
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Paul Lytton (drums, percussion), Ken Vandermark (reeds), Nate Wooley (trumpet), live, Madison, Wis., 4/15/22
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this morning, Oak Park, Ill
2021
Monday, October 11th
sounds of Chicago
Ken Vandermark (1964-, reeds) & Hamid Drake (1955-, drums, MCOTD Hall of Fame), playing the music of Don Cherry (1936-1995), live (performance begins at 4:50), Chicago, 10/9/21
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2021
Monday, September 27th
sounds of Chicago
This is one of the best music festivals I know: thoughtfully programmed, lovingly presented.
Hyde Park Jazz Festival: Makaya McCraven (drums, compositions), Ensemble Dal Niente featuring Ken Vandermark (saxophone), live, Chicago, 9/25/21
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yesterday, Chicago
2020
Monday, April 20th
what’s new
Ken Vandermark (reeds), live, Chicago (Quarantine Concert presented by Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago), 4/6/20
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2020
Thursday, March 12th
tonight in Chicago
They’re playing at Elastic Arts.
Ken Vandermark (reeds), Nate Wooley (trumpet), Paul Lytton (drums), live, Chicago, 2011
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Kuzu (Dave Rempis, reeds; Tashi Dorji, guitar; Tyler Damon, drums), live, Columbia, S.C., 2018
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2019
Wednesday, July 31st
Tenor saxophone and drums—another take.
Ken Vandermark (tenor saxophone), Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), live, Netherlands (Haarlem), 2014
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There came a Wind like a Bugle —
It quivered through the Grass
And a Green Chill upon the Heat
So ominous did pass
We barred the Windows and the Doors
As from an Emerald Ghost —
The Doom’s electric Moccasin
That very instant passed —
On a strange Mob of panting Trees
And Fences fled away
And Rivers where the Houses ran
Those looked that lived — that Day —
The Bell within the steeple wild
The flying tidings told —
How much can come
And much can go,
And yet abide the World!—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 1618 (Franklin)
2019
Friday, May 3rd
tonight in Chicago
They’re playing at Corbett v. Dempsey.
Ken Vandermark (reeds) and Nate Wooley (trumpet), live, Copenhagen, 2016
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Forever – is composed of Nows –
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 690 (Franklin)
2017
Saturday, October 14th
sounds of Chicago, Amsterdam, Vienna
Made to Break (Ken Vandermark, tenor saxophone, compositions; Tim Daisy, drums; Jasper Stadhouders, bass; Christof Kurzmann, electronics), live, Macedonia (Skopje), 2016
“Dial the Number”
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“Theme”
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Offering
by W.S. Merwin (1927-)Saturday morning and the trades
are back trading out of the east
offering their samples of cloud
each the only one of its kind
and each of them changing even
as it is offered only once
without a word except the one
sound of hushing to say that this
is all happening in secret
this unrepeatable present
only today for the lucky one
2016
Tuesday, August 30th
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Today drummer Hamid Drake (1955-) enters the MCOTD Hall of Fame, joining saxophonists Von Freeman and Henry Threadgill; trumpeter Lester Bowie; gospel singer Dorothy Love Coates; composer Morton Feldman; poets John Berryman, William Bronk, and Wislawa Szymborska; and photographer Helen Levitt. Whatever the situation, he adds oxygen.
DKV Trio (HD, drums; Kent Kessler, bass; Ken Vandermark, baritone saxophone), live, Chicago, 2010
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