Vandermark 5 - Beat Reader

A new episode of the V5 project, after eleven years since the debut album and some changes of line-up during this long time.
Ken and his ensemble succeed once more in making convergent different attitudes of contemporary music.
This double disc shows, in fact, the eclectism of the composer: an instinct of free improvisation rules “Beat reader”, of course, but there is also space for moments of progressive rock, some unusual rhythms and unexpected variations.
Each track has a definite identity and reserves a particular approach. So, for example, the first part of “New acrylic” is focused on the enthralling rhythm supported by Tim Daisy, the cello of Lonberg-Holm that sounds like a distorted guitar, “Any given number” with its melodic line, "Signposts" that alternates frenetic passages and sudden breaks into a slow playing, “Speedplay" with a pure free bop structure and the unrecognizable Lonberg-Holm’s cello that returns with an incredible rock-style solo.

Another step ahead, the evolution of this excellent group goes on...

Personnel:
Ken Vandermark: baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet
Fred Lonberg-Holm: cello and electronics
Dave Rempis: alto and tenor saxophone
Kent Kessler: bass
Tim Daisy: drums

Label: Atavistic
Cat. #: ALP184CD
Format: 2xCD
Release date: 2008

Tracklisting:
01 - Friction (For Gyorgy Ligeti) (08:36)
02 - New Acrylic (For Andreas Gursky) (09:35)
03 - Any Given Number (For Bernd And Hilla Becher) (08:02)
04 - Signposts (For Lee Friedlander) (08:56)
05 - Speedplay (For Max Roach) (07:08)
06 - Compass Shatters Magnet (For Paul Rutherford) (11:54)
07 - Further From the Truth (For Walker Evans) (06:28)
08 - Desireless (For Daido Moriyama) (08:43)

Previous releases:

Single Piece Flow















Label: Atavistic
Cat. #: ALP047CD
Format: CD
Release date: 1997

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Target Or Flag















Label: Atavistic
Cat. #: ALP106CD
Format: CD
Release date: 1998

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Simpatico















Label: Atavistic
Cat. #: ALP107CD
Format: CD
Release date: 1999

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Burn The Incline















Label: Atavistic
Cat. #: ALP121CD
Format: CD
Release date: 2000

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Acoustic Machine














Label: Atavistic
Cat. #: ALP128CD
Format: CD
Release date: 2001

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Free Jazz Classics Vols. 1 & 2















Label: Atavistic
Cat. #: ALP137CD
Format: 2xCD
Release date: 2002

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Airports For Light















Label: Atavistic
Cat. #: ALP140CD
Format: CD
Release date: 2003

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Elements Of Style, Excercises In Surprise















Label: Atavistic
Cat. #: ALP150CD
Format: CD
Release date: 2004

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Alchemia















Label: NotTwo
Cat. #: MW 750-2
Format: 12xCD, Box
Release date: 2005

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The Color Of Memory















Label: Atavistic
Cat. #: ALP166CD
Format: 2xCD
Release date: 2005

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Free Jazz Classics Vols. 3 & 4















Label: Atavistic
Cat. #: ALP170CD
Format: 2xCD
Release date: 2006

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A Discontinuous Line















Label: Atavistic
Cat. #: ALP173CD
Format: CD
Release date: 2006

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Links:
Tim Daisy
Kent Kessler
Fred Lonberg-Holm
Dave Rempis
Ken Vandermark
Atavistic

Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet - At Molde 2007

Ten years of Chicago Tentet. A live event for celebrating an extraordinary group of musicians, active since a decade, led by Peter Brötzmann and involving some of the most important figures of the contemporary improvised music scene.
Recorded during the 2007 European tour, at Molde Jazzfestival, Norvay (July 20th), it consists of three compositions showing all the expressive force and spontaneity of these free improvisers.
"At Molde 2007" is a recording that could narrate all the accumulated experience and the communicative capability of this ensemble; a decade of genuine artistic effort by the Tentet from Chicago.

Personnel:
Peter Brötzmann: reeds
Johannes Bauer: trombone
Mats Gustafsson: saxophones
Per-Ake Holmlander: tuba
Kent Kessler: bass
Fred Lonberg-Holm: cello
Joe McPhee: trumpet
Paal Nilssen-Love: drums
Ken Vandermark: reeds
Michael Zerang: drums

Label: Okka Disk
Cat. #: OD12072
Format: CD
Release date: 2007

Tracklisting:
01 - Ten By Ten (39:06)
02 - Little By Little (11:52)
03 - Step By Step (22:57)

Previous releases:

The Chicago Octet/Tentet (1998, Okka Disk, OD12022)

Stone/Water (2000, Okka Disk, ODL12032)

Short Visit To Nowhere (2001, Okka Disk, OD12044)

Broken English (2002, Okka Disk, OD12043)

Images (2003, Okka Disk, OD12047)

Signs (2003, Okka Disk, OD12048)

Be Music, Night (2005, Okka Disk, OD12059 - Jazzwerkstatt, JW 002)

American Landscapes 1 (2007, Okka Disk, OD12067)

American Landscapes 2 (2007, Okka Disk, OD12068)

Links:
Fred Lonberg-Holm
Joe McPhee
Ken Vandermark
Mats Gustafsson
Michael Zerang
Paal Nilssen-Love
Peter Brötzmann
Okka Disk