Tag Archives: The Vandermark Quartet

A self-described “Chicago-born Assyrian percussionist,” Michael Zerang’s set of collaborators is a virtual compendium from the Windy City’s free of charge jazz/improv community, including saxophonists Fred Anderson and Ken Vandermark, cellist Fred Longberg-Holm, drummer Hamid Drake, and bassist Kent Kessler, amongst others. A few of his many overall performance vehicles …

Eyebrows were raised in the jazz globe when it had been announced that the relatively obscure and teen Ken Vandermark was to get a 1999 MacArthur Genius offer. Prior MacArthur recipients among jazz music artists consist of Cecil Taylor and Anthony Braxton — near-legendary statistics who, during the period of …

Jazz bassist Kent Kessler is most beneficial known for his component in various Chicago rings, usually in line-ups with reedsman Ken Vandermark. He initial began showing up on recordings in the first ’90s as an associate of Hal Russell’s NRG Outfit. The band continuing after Russell’s loss of life in …