# Ken Vandermark discography

Discography for jazz reedist Ken Vandermark. The year indicates when the album was first released.

## Ken Vandermark

* Caffeine (Jim Baker/Steve Hunt/Ken Vandermark):Caffeine (Okka Disk, 1994)
* Standards (Quinnah, 1995)
* Steelwool Trio (Ken Vandermark/Kent Kessler/Curt Newton): International Front (Okka Disk, 1995)
* Barrage Double Trio: Utility Hitter (Quinnah, 1996)
* Cinghiale: Hoofbeats of the Snorting Swine (Eighth Day Music, 1996)
* FJF (Mats Gustafsson/Ken Vandermark/Steve Hunt/Kent Kessler): Blow Horn (Okka Disk, 1997)
* Steam: Real Time (Eighth Day Music, 1997)
* Joe Harriott Project: Straight Lines (Atavistic, 1999)
* Two Days in December (Wobbly Rail, 2002)
* Furniture Music (Okka Disk, 2003)
* Paul Lytton/Ken Vandermark/Philipp Wachsmann: CINC (Okka Disk, 2006)
* Bridge 61: Journal (Atavistic, 2006)
* Ken Vandermark, Kent Kessler, Nate McBride [de], Ingebrigt Håker Flaten & Wilbert De Joode [de]: Collected Fiction (Okka Disk, 2009)
* The Frame Quartet (Tim Daisy [de]/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Nate McBride/Ken Vandermark): 35 mm (Okka Disk, 2009)
* iTi (Johannes Bauer/Ken Vandermark/Paal Nilssen-Love/Thomas Lehn): Artifact: Live In St. Johann (Okka Disk, 2010)
* Predella Group: Strade D'Acqua (Multikulti, 2010)
* Mark in the Water (Not Two, 2011)
* Platform 1: Takes Off (Clean Feed, 2012)
* Ken Vandermark's Topology Nonet featuring Joe McPhee: Impressions of Po Music (Okka Disk, 2013)
* Nine Ways to Read a Bridge (Not Two, 2014)
* Site Specific (Audiographic Records, 2015)
* Momentum 1: Stone (Audiographic Records, 2016)
* Escalator (Not Two, 2017)
* Momentum 4: Consequent Duos 2015>2019 (Audiographic Records/Catalytic Sounds, 2019)

## The Vandermark Quartet

* Big Head Eddie (Platypus, 1993)
* Solid Action (Platypus, 1994)

## The Vandermark 5

* Single Piece Flow (Atavistic, 1997)
* Target or Flag (Atavistic, 1998)
* Simpatico (Atavistic, 1999)
* Burn the Incline (Atavistic, 2000)
* Acoustic Machine (Atavistic, 2001)
* Free Jazz Classics Vol. 1 & 2 (Atavistic, 2002)
* Airports for Light (Atavistic, 2003)
* Elements of Style/Exercises in Surprise (Atavistic, 2004)
* Alchemia (Not Two, 2005)
* The Color of Memory (Atavistic, 2005)
* Free Jazz Classics Vol. 3 & 4 (Atavistic, 2005)
* A Discontinuous Line (Atavistic, 2006)
* Four Sides to the Story (Not Two, 2006)
* Beat Reader (Atavistic, 2008)
* Annular Gift (Not Two, 2009)
* The Horse Jumps and the Ship Is Gone (Not Two, 2010)

## The Crown Royals

* All Night Burner (Estrus, 1997)
* Funky-Do! (Estrus, 1999)

## DKV Trio

(Hamid Drake/Kent Kessler/Ken Vandermark)
* Fred Anderson / DKV Trio (Okka Disk, 1997)
* Baraka (Okka Disk, 1997)
* DKV Live (limited edition - Okka Disk, 1997)
* Deep Telling (Okka Disk, 1999) - with Joe Morris
* Live in Wels & Chicago, 1998 (Okka Disk, 1999)
* Trigonometry (Okka Disk, 2002)
* AALY Trio/DKV Trio: Double or Nothing (Okka Disk, 2002)
* Past Present (Not Two, 2012)
* Schl8hof (Trost, 2013) - with Mats Gustafsson, Massimo Pupillo, Paal Nilssen-Love
* Sound in Motion in Sound (Not Two, 2014)
* Collider (Not Two, 2016)

## AALY Trio + Ken Vandermark

(Mats Gustafsson/Peter Janson/Kjell Nordeson + Ken Vandermark)
* Hidden in the Stomach (Silkheart, 1998)
* Stumble (Wobbly Rail, 1998)
* Live at the Glenn Miller Café (Wobbly Rail, 1999)
* I Wonder If I Was Screaming (Crazy Wisdom, 2000)

## Sound in Action Trio

* Design in Time (Delmark, 1999)
* Gate (Atavistic, 2006)

## Tripleplay

* Expansion Slang (Boxholder, 2000)
* Gambit (Clean Feed, 2004)

## Spaceways Inc.

(Hamid Drake, Ken Vandermark)
* Thirteen Cosmic Standards (Atavistic, 2000)
* Version Soul (Atavistic, 2002)
* Radiale (Atavistic, 2004) - with Zu

## School Days

(Vandermark/Bishop/Nordeson/Håker-Flaten/Nilssen-Love)
* Crossing Division (Okka Disk, 2000)
* In Our Times (Okka Disk, 2002)
* Nuclear Assembly Hall (Okka Disk, 2004) - with Atomic
* Distil (Okka Disk, 2008) - with Atomic

## Territory Band

* Transatlantic Bridge (Okka Disk, 2001)
* Atlas (Okka Disk, 2002)
* Map Theory (Okka Disk, 2004)
* Company Switch (Okka Disk, 2005)
* A New Horse for the White House (Okka Disk, 2006)
* Collide (Okka Disk, 2007) - with Fred Anderson

## FME

(Paal Nilssen-Love/Nate McBride [de]/Ken Vandermark)
* Live at the Glenn Miller Cafe (Okka Disk, 2002)
* Underground (Okka Disk, 2004)
* Cuts (Okka Disk, 2005)
* Montage (Okka Disk, 2006)

## Paal Nilssen-Love & Ken Vandermark

* Dual Pleasure (Smalltown Supersound, 2002)
* Dual Pleasure 2 (Smalltown Supersound, 2004)
* Seven (Smalltown Supersound, 2006)
* Chicago Volume (Smalltown Supersound, 2010)
* Milwaukee Volume (Smalltown Supersound, 2010)
* Letter to a Stranger (Smalltown Supersound, 2011)
* Lightning Over Water (Laurence Family, 2014)
* Extended Duos (Audiographic/PNL, 2014)

## Free Fall

* Furnace (Wobbly Rail, 2003)
* Amsterdam Funk (Smalltown Supersonic, 2005)
* The Point in a Line (Smalltown Supersonic, 2007)
* Gray Scale (Smalltown Supersonic, 2010)

## Sonore

(Peter Brötzmann/Mats Gustafsson/Ken Vandermark)
* No One Ever Works Alone (Okka Disk, 2004)
* Only the Devil Has No Dreams (Jazzwerkstatt, 2007)
* Call Before You Dig (Okka Disk, 2009)
* Cafe OTO / London (Trost, 2011)

## Powerhouse Sound

* Oslo/Chicago: Breaks (Atavistic, 2007)
* Overlap (Laurence Family, 2010)

## Daisy / Vandermark Duo

(Tim Daisy [de]/Ken Vandermark)
* August Music (Self-released, 2007)
* Light on the Wall (Laurence Family, 2009)
* The Conversation (Multikulti, 2011)

## Fire Room

* Broken Music (Atavistic, 2008)
* Second Breath (Bocian, 2013)

## The Resonance Ensemble

* Resonance (Not Two, 2008)
* Resonance (Box set) (Not Two, 2009)
* Kafka in Flight (Not Two, 2011)
* What Country Is This? (Not Two, 2012)
* Head Above Water, Feet Out the Fire (Not Two, 2013)
* Double Arc (Not Two, 2015)

## Lean Left

(Paal Nilssen-Love/Terrie Ex/Andy Moor/Ken Vandermark)
* Volume 1 (Smalltown Supersound, 2009/Catalytic Sound, 2010)
* Volume 2 (Smalltown Supersound, 2010)
* Live at Cafe Oto (Unsounds, 2012)
* Live at Cafe Oto Day One with Ab Baars (Catalytic Sound, 2012)
* Live at Cafe Oto Day Two with Steve Noble [de] (Catalytic Sound, 2012)
* Live at Area Sismica (Unsounds, 2014)

## Side A

* A New Margin (Clean Feed, 2011)
* In the Abstract (Not Two, 2014)

## Double Tandem

* Cement (PNL, 2012)
* Ox (dEN, 2012)

## Made To Break

* Provoke (Clean Feed, 2013)
* Lacerba (Clean Feed, 2013)
* Cherchez La Femme (Trost, 2014)
* Before the Code (Trost, 2015)
* Before the Code: Live (Audiographic, 2016)
* N N N (Audiographic, 2016)
* Dispatch to the Sea (Audiographic, 2016)
* Trebuchet (Trost, 2017)

## The Margots

* Pescado (Okka Disk, 2013)
* Sople (Okka Disk, 2014)

## Audio One

(Jason Adasciewicz [de]/Josh Berman/Jeb Bishop/Tim Daisy [de]/Nick Macri [de]/Nick Mazzarella [de]/Jen Paulson [de]/Dave Rempis/Ken Vandermark/Mars Williams)
* An International Report (Audiographic, 2014)
* The Midwest School (Audiographic, 2014)
* What Thomas Bernhard Saw (Audiographic, 2015)

## DEK Trio

(Elisabeth Harnik [de]/Didi Kern [de]/Ken Vandermark)
* Burning Below Zero (Trost Records, 2016)
* Construct 1 - Stone (Audiographic, 2017)
* Construct 2 - Artfacts (Audiographic, 2017)
* Divadlo 29 (Audiographic, 2017)

## Marker

(Ken Vandermark/Macie Stewart/Steve Marquette [de]/Andrew Clinkman [de]/Phil Sudderberg [de])
* Wired for Sound (Audiographic, 2018)
* Roadwork 1 / Roadwork 2 / Homework 1 3-CD set (Audiographic, 2018)

## Edition Redux

(Erez Dessel [de]/Lily Finnegan [de]/Beth McDonald [de]/Ken Vandermark)
* Better a Rook Than a Pawn (Audiographic, 2023)

## Other collaborations

* Joe McPhee/Ken Vandermark/Kent Kessler: A Meeting in Chicago (Eighth Day Music, 1997; Okka Disk reissue)
* Joe Morris/Ken Vandermark/Hans Poppel: Like Rays (Knitting Factory, 1998)
* Paul Lytton/Ken Vandermark: English Suites (Wobbly Rail, 2000)
* Pipeline (Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2000, issued 2013)
* Pandelis Karayorgis/Nate McBride [de]/Ken Vandermark: No Such Thing (Boxholder, 2001)
* Ken Vandermark & Brian Dibblee [de]: Duets (Future Reference, 2003)
* Gold Sparkle Trio + Ken Vandermark: Brooklyn Cantos (Squealer, 2004)
* Rutherford/Vandermark/Müller/van der Schyff: Hoxha (Spool, 2005)
* Marcin Oleś/Bartłomiej Brat Oleś [de]/Ken Vandermark: 'Ideas (Not Two, 2005)
* Morris/Vandermark/Gray: Rebus (Clean Feed, 2007)
* Vandermark/Karayorgis: Foreground Music (Okka Disk, 2007)
* Broo/Lane/Nilssen-Love/Vandermark: 4 Corners (Clean Feed, 2007)
* The Thing + Ken Vandermark: Immediate Sound (Smalltown Supersound, 2007)
* Ab Baars Trio + Ken Vandermark: Goofy June Bug (Wig, 2008)
* C.O.D.E.: Play the Music of Ornette Coleman & Eric Dolphy (Cracked An Egg, 2008)
* Vandermark/Guy/Sanders: Fox Fire (Maya, 2009)
* Reed Trio: Last Train to the First Station (Kilogram, 2011)
* Full Blast and Friends: Sketches and Ballads (Trost, 2011)
* Paul Lytton/Nate Wooley [de] + Ikue Mori/Ken Vandermark: The Nows (Clean Feed, 2012)
* Vandermark/Gustafsson: Verses (Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2013)
* Rara Avis: Mutations / Multicellular Mutations (dEN, 2013)
* The Ex & Brass Unbound: Enormous Door (Ex Records, 2013)
* Vandermark/Grubbs: Parallax Sounds (Just Temptation, 2014)
* Ken Vandermak & Nate Wooley Duo: East by Northwest (Audiographic/Pleasure of the Text, 2014)
* Ken Vandermak & Nate Wooley Duo: All Directions Home (Audiographic/Pleasure of the Text, 2015)
* Rara Avis: Rara Avis (Not Two, 2015)
* Barry Guy/Ken Vandermark: Occasional Poems (Not Two, 2015)
* Mars Williams/Dave Rempis/Ken Vandermark/[Nick Mazzarella [de]: Western Automatic (Aerophonic Records, 2015)
* Lasse Marhaug/Ken Vandermark: Close Up (Audiographic Records, 2016)
* Terrie Hessels/Ken Vandermark: Splinters (Audiographic Records, 2016)
* Shelter (Steve Heather [de]/Jasper Stadhouders [de]/Ken Vandermark/Nate Wooley): Shelter (Audiographic Records, 2017)
* Tim Daisy [de]/Michael Thieke/Ken Vandermark: Triptych (Catalytic Sound, 2017)
* Rutherford/Vandermark/Müller/van der Schyff: Are We in Diego? (WhirrbooM!, 2018)
* VWCR: Ken Vandermark/Nate Wooley/Sylvie Courvoisier/Tom Rainey: Noise Of Our Time (Intakt Records, 2018)
* Ken Vandermark/Michael Snow :Vandermark & Snow: DUOL (Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2019)

## As sideman

With Jeb Bishop
* 98 Duets (Wobbly Rail, 1998)
With Boxhead Ensemble
* Dutch Harbor – Where the Sea Breaks Its Back (Atavistic, 1997)
* The Last Place to Go (Atavistic, 1998)
With Peter Brötzmann - The Chicago Octet/Tentet/Tentet Plus Two
* The Chicago Octet/Tentet (Okka Disk, 1998)
* Stone/Water (Okka Disk, 2000)
* Two Lightboxes (2000)
* Broken English (Okka Disk, 2002)
* Short Visit to Nowhere (Okka Disk, 2002)
* Images (Okka Disk, 2004)
* Signs (Okka Disk, 2004)
* Be Music, Night (Okka Disk, 2005)
* American Landscapes 1 (Okka Disk, 2007)
* American Landscapes 2 (Okka Disk, 2007)
* At Molde 2007 (Okka Disk, 2008)
* 3 Nights in Oslo (Smalltown Supersound, 2010)
* Walk, Love, Sleep (Smalltown Supersound, 2012)
With The Denison/Kimball Trio
* Neutrons (Quarterstick, 1997)
With The Flying Luttenbachers
* Constructive Destruction (ugEXPLODE, 1994)
* Destroy All Music (ugEXPLODE, 1994)
With Alan Licht & Loren Mazzacane Connors
* Hoffman Estates (Drag City, 1998)
With Misha Mengelberg
* Two Days in Chicago (hatOLOGY, 1999)
With the NRG Ensemble
* Calling All Mothers (Quinnah, 1994)
* This Is My House (Delmark, 1996)
* Bejazzo Gets a Facelift (Atavistic, 1998)
With Eric Revis
* Parallax (Clean Feed, 2013)
With Luke Stewart Exposure Quintet
* Luke Stewart Exposure Quintet (Astral Spirits, 2020)
With Witches & Devils
* At the Empty Bottle (Knitting Factory, 2000)

## Guest appearances

* Syl Johnson: Back in the Game (Delmark, 1994)
* Gastr del Sol: Camoufleur (1998)
* Pinetop Seven: Rigging the Toplights (1998)
* Superchunk: Come Pick Me Up (1999)
* Portastatic feat. Ken Vandermark/Tim Mulvenna [de]: The Perfect Little Door (Merge, 2001)
* Zu: Igneo (2002)