Browse by Artist: VANDERMARK 5, THE

Artist:	VANDERMARK 5, THE
Title:	Acoustic Machine
Label:	ATAVISTIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	ALP 128CD

"Each album in the V5's discography has been captivating, tuneful, muscular & focused; but Acoustic Machine their annual installment for 2001, is likely their most distilled effort yet. Bishop, Kessler, Mulvenna, Rempis and Vandermark continue to grow as a quintet and as individuals, by somehow simultaneously honing and widening their purview. As the tradition goes, Ken has chosen to dedicate each tune on Acoustic Machine to a particularly influential artist in his own development; the 'HBF Series' -- the first short pieces ever released by the group -- are an homage to visionary minimalist composer Morton Feldman; Archle Shepp, Elvin Jones, Julius Hemphill, Stan Getz & Lester Young also 'get theirs'."

Artist:	VANDERMARK 5, THE
Title:	Free Jazz Classics Vols. 1 & 2
Label:	ATAVISTIC
Format:	2CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	ALP 137CD

"Chicago's broadest shoulders present a nice-price double-CD reissue of their very sought-after and critically acclaimed Free Jazz Classics discs. Originally issued as limited edition bonus discs with the V5's last two albums Burn The Incline (ALP121CD)& Acoustic Machine (ALP128CD), jazz legends Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Carla Bley, Joe McPhee, Lester Bowie, Eric Dolphy, Anthony Braxton, Sun Ra, Frank Wright, Jimmy Guiffre, Julius Hemphill & Don Cherry get paid their due respect- as only The Vandermark 5 can."

Artist:	VANDERMARK 5, THE
Title:	Airports For Light
Label:	ATAVISTIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	ALP 140CD

"The Vandermark 5's first studio album in two years (and the first waxed with drummer Tim Daisy) further integrates and resolves the potent musical ideas & structural complexities that surfaced on their previous effort, 2001's experimental Acoustic Machine. Superbly saturated to 2" analog by Shellac's Bob Weston (also at the helm on Spaceways Inc.'s recent Version Soul album), Airports For Light trades in a more palpable, effortless swing than past V5 efforts. Our favorite standard bearers' mastery over their own post-modern ballads has dramatically increased as well, providing a more confident command of the 'quieter' moments & myriad compositional challenges."

Artist:	VANDERMARK 5, THE
Title:	Elements of Style, Exercises in Surprise
Label:	ATAVISTIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	ALP 150CD

"The new V5 album, Elements Of Style is largely concerned with scale -- and is available ONLY in size XXL. Chicago's (and perhaps America's) most powerful new jazz quintet have created an array of musical themes & structures destined to blow the roof off the/your house, deployed using a superb balance of post-bop & avant-garde materials. Ken Vandermark's premiere project has been touring the planet relentlessly, and has never sounded more complete or sublime. The Vandermark 5's inherent promise to build a spectacular musical bridge between vanguard & traditional forms has been realized with the release of Elements Of Style."

Artist:	VANDERMARK 5, THE
Title:	A Discontinuous Line
Label:	ATAVISTIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	ALP 173CD

"The Vandermark 5 deliver on the epic promise of 2005's The Color Of Memory with what may well be their most ambitious compositional effort thus far. A Discontinuous Line presents a remarkable range of dynamic musical ideas and influences processed, as Vandermark fully leverages the vast experience & deep well of talent assembled in The V5's third lineup in their decade-plus existence. Call it what you will... post-bop, avant-garde, neu chamber music, free jazz -- it just doesn't matter any more. What DOES matter is the monolithic edifice that has been so meticulously assembled by America's finest working jazz ensemble: an authenticity of materials, an integrity of concepts, the will to improve -- and the courage to change. Ten years of piledriving musical endeavor has resulted in perhaps The V5's most complex and engaging studio album yet."

Artist:	VANDERMARK 5, THE
Title:	Beat Reader
Label:	ATAVISTIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	ALP 184CD

"KV and Chicago's finest fivesome once again team up with Bob Weston to notch out Beat Reader, the quintet's 12th album for Atavistic over the course of the last decade-plus. Inasmuch as one may contemplate the recorded works of Sonic Youth as a genre unto itself, The V5 may now lay claim to such a distinction: existing simultaneously inside AND outside the realm of jazz. Vandermark's compositions have recently become even more guided by his respect for (and sonic interpretations of) the traditional arts."

Artist:	VANDERMARK 5, THE
Title:	Four Sides to the Story
Label:	NOT TWO RECORDS (POLAND)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$70.00
Catalog #:	MW 775LP

"Limited edition, double-LP box set documenting the V5's 2005 gigs in Poland, on their 'Color Of Memory' European Tour. Four Sides rivals Not Two's superb Alchemia 12CD box set in quality, is even more limited in quantity, and features live material from both Color and the quintet's recently released A Discontinuous Line. This hefty beast is an absolute must-have -- and it's the first such artifact from the current V5 lineup with Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello." Packaged in a felt-lined box.

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