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,, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten & : Collected Fiction (Okka Disk, 2009)
 * The Frame Quartet (/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//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
(/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  (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
(/Josh Berman/Jeb Bishop/////Dave Rempis/Ken Vandermark/Mars Williams)
 * An International Report (Audiographic, 2014)
 * The Midwest School (Audiographic, 2014)
 * What Thomas Bernhard Saw (Audiographic, 2015)

DEK Trio
(//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///)
 * Wired for Sound (Audiographic, 2018)
 * Roadwork 1 / Roadwork 2 / Homework 1 3-CD set (Audiographic, 2018)

Edition Redux
(///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//Ken Vandermark: No Such Thing (Boxholder, 2001)
 * Ken Vandermark & : Duets (Future Reference, 2003)
 * Gold Sparkle Trio + Ken Vandermark: Brooklyn Cantos (Squealer, 2004)
 * Rutherford/Vandermark/Müller/van der Schyff: Hoxha (Spool, 2005)
 * Marcin Oleś//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/ + 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/[: Western Automatic (Aerophonic Records, 2015)
 * Lasse Marhaug/Ken Vandermark: Close Up (Audiographic Records, 2016)
 * Terrie Hessels/Ken Vandermark: Splinters (Audiographic Records, 2016)
 * Shelter (//Ken Vandermark/Nate Wooley): Shelter (Audiographic Records, 2017)
 * /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/: The Perfect Little Door (Merge, 2001)
 * Zu: Igneo (2002)