About Ken Vandermark written by NewCityMusic (https://music.newcity.com/2016/07/14/music-45/3/)
The jazz and avant-garde composer and multi-instrumentalist has one of those careers that’s difficult to encapsulate; his endeavors just cast too wide a net. Since we last spoke to him in 2014, he’s released three recordings: one by his ensemble Audio One (“What Thomas Bernhard Saw”) and two duo albums, pairing him with trumpeter Nate Wooley and Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love. He also published a book of his photographs and solo recordings, “Site Specific,” co-founded the weekly Option concerts at the Experimental Sound Studio, programmed a twelve-set residency at The Stone in New York by John Zorn, and initiated the Momentum series of North American projects and recordings. And he’s done all this while touring about half of each year, primarily in Europe and North America, with a variety of ensembles and collaborators—including a new international quartet called Shelter. In 1999, Vandermark won a prestigious MacArthur “genius grant;” seventeen years on, the foundation has no cause to be embarrassed by the choice.

7:30 PM – doors open

8:00 PM – show

Cover $15