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Artist: CINC
Title: Cinc
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: ODL 10009CD
Featuring: Paul Lytton - percussion, Ken Vandermark - reeds, Philipp Wachsmann - violin & electronics. Five tracks recorded in France and Slovenia on the group's first tour, in 2004.


Artist: ANDERSON/STEVE MCCALL, FRED
Title: Vintage Duets
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 001CD
Okka Disc is a new Chicago label dedicated to the free improvisatory music that emanates from there, and everything they've released to date has been impressive in both sound and presentation. This first release features local underdocumented hero Anderson on tenor sax, and the late McCall on percussion. Both players are original members of AACM and legendary in that context.


Artist: BROTZMANN/HAMID DRAKE, PETER
Title: The Dried Rat-Dog
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 004CD
"The first document of the intense one-on-one music created by Chicago percussionist Hamid Drake and German multiple reedman Peter Brotzmann ...and a revelation it is! The Dried Rat-Dog contains some of Brotzmann's most forceful, powerful playing, as well as his most lyrical and intimate. With Drake featured on hand drums, North Indian tabla, and frame drum, as well as trap kit, the polyrhythms and percussive ideas flow freely, and Brotzmann responds with earth-moving alto and tenor sax, tarogato, and clarinet."


Artist: STEELWOOL
Title: International Front
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 005CD
A new Chicago trio featuring Kan Vandermark (reeds), Kent Kessler (b) & Curt Newton (d). "With Steelwool [Vandermark] operates in the fertile zone between free play and composition, recalling such pioneers as A. Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell and Steve Lacy. Characterized by spaciousness, strands of lyricism and melodic invention, and his well known penchant for energy."


Artist: GUSTAFSSON, MATS
Title: Parrot Fish Eye
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 006CD
Gustafsson is a Swedish reeds player (here on ss, bs, and "fluteophone" -- made by sticking a sax mouthpiece in a flute), referred to in some circles as "the next Evan Parker," due to his impressive, way out style. Here he is found in various duets and trios with Jim O'Rourke (g, accordion, perc.), Gene Coleman (bcl) & Michael Zerang (perc.).


Artist: DRAKE/MICHAEL ZERANG DUO, HAMID
Title: Ask The Sun
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 008CD
Percussion duets from these 2 Chicago-based improvisers. "Featured instrumentation includes trap-kit, hand drums, table and dumbek, and assorted other objects struck, swiped, stroked and shook. A meeting ground for international traditions lit with the spark of creative jazz and improvised music."


Artist: GUSTAFSSON/BARRY GUY/PAUL LOVENS, MATS
Title: Mouth Eating Trees and Related Activities
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 010CD
"Talk about powerhouse trios! Take the fastest rising saxophone star in improvised music, put him together with the most innovative bassist in Europe and the most inventive percussionist in the world, and what do you get? ...a magnificent meeting of minds recorded in the studio during a broadcast on Swedish radio in 1992. The distinct elements: Gustafsson's lightning-quick soprano, tenor, baritone and fluteophone (his own invention), Guy's gonzo technique and unreal preparations (scrub brushes, sticks, mallets, slides and multiple bows) and Lovens' precision timing, volcanic energy and brilliant use of timbre and texture...a trio more exciting and combustible (if that's possible) than the sum of its parts."


Artist: BRÖTZMANN/HAMID DRAKE/MAHMOUD GANIA, PETER
Title: The WELS Concert
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 013CD
"The first release by this wonderful new Brötzmann trio featuring long time collaborator Hamid Drake on percussion and drums, and Moroccan Mahmoud Gania on guembi (a two string hide covered, for lack of a better word, guitar) and vocals. This is a live recording from the Festival Music Unlimited 96 (Austria). The whole 70 minute concert is here in three parts."


Artist: ANDERSON/DKV TRIO, FRED
Title:
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 014CD
"A great concept, devised by Ken Vandermark, to showcase the compositions of Fred Anderson. Out of the four titles on Okka Disk by Fred, this may just be the best. Anderson/Vandermark (ts), Kessler (b), Drake (drums)."


Artist: MCPHEE/KEN VANDERMARK/KENT KESSLER, JOE
Title: A Meeting in Chicago
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 016CD
McPhee (ts, ss, pocket-tp), Ken Vandermark (ts, cl, bcl), Kessler (b); a reissue of the now deleted version on Eighth Day Music from 1997, with far superior packaging. "Vandermark has long cited McPhee's great hat HUT record Tenor as one of his strongest inspirations, an LP that showed him ways to integrate energy, flow and lyricism into the same musical space. Conversely, McPhee was moved to hear the now-defunct Vandermark Quartet cover one of his compositions at a festival some years back. A wildly prodigious composer, bandleader and player, Vandermark fronts and works in a variety of groups, including the Vandermark 5, NRG Ensemble, Steam, Caffeine, Witches and Devils, DK3, the Crown Royals, Baxter and the Sun Ra Project. Kessler and Vandermark have established a near-sibling working relationship -- the bassist figures in virtually all of Vandermark's ensembles and the two join forces with drum dynamo Hamid Drake in the egalitarian DKV Trio. Based in Poughkeepsie, New York, Joe McPhee is one of the most sensitive, authoritative, personal musical forces on the planet, whether he's playing puckered pocket-trumpet or pugilistic tenor sax. More than mere document of a first encounter,A Meeting in Chicago is destined to be a free music classic."


Artist: PARKER, EVAN
Title: Chicago Solo
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 017CD
Evan Parker's has recorded numerous solo alto saxophone records, but his is his first ever unaccompanied solo tenor sax recording. Caught in the studio during the FMP festival, winter of '95, this features 14 solo works, including pieces dedicated to Chris McGregor, Lee Konitz, Anthony Braxton & George Lewis.


Artist: BRAXTON/GEORG GRAWE, ANTHONY
Title: Duo (Amsterdam) 1991
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 018CD
"The first encounter between the American new music icon (on reeds only) and one of Germany's best improvising pianists. This disk was recorded during the October Meeting of '91 is outstanding, really. The Braxton 'must have' of the season. A Grawe 'must have', period."


Artist: FJF
Title: Blow Horn
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 019CD
"The first recording between Swedish dynamo Mats Gustafsson (tenor/baritone saxes & French glageolett) and Chicago's reigning tenor giant, Ken Vandermark (also on bass clarinet). The rhythm section consists of perennial Vandermark bassist collaborator Kent Kessler and Steve Hunt on drums."


Artist: ANDERSON TRIO, FRED
Title: Live At The Velvet Lounge
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 023CD
1999 release, repressed. "This is a new trio with Peter Kowald on bass and Hamid Drake on percussion. Recorded last summer at Fred's world famous club." "If anyone knows Fred's music it's Hamid Drake, an astonishing drummer who's worked with him for about 25 years. The German bassist, Peter Kowald, is rightfully a legend -- listen to him here playing things that he's never done before. The music is spontaneous and carved out of Fred's language, a language that's flexible and open enough to deal with this first encounter and with ideas developed on both sides of the Atlantic ocean. Those of us that caught the concert that night saw and heard something that will stay with us forever. Those of you who couldn't be there are lucky enough to have this document in your hands." -- Ken Vandermark.


Artist: GRAWE, GEORGE
Title: Melodie Und Rhythmus
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 024CD
Georg Gräwe (piano), Frank Gratkowski (as, cl), Kent Kessler (b), Hamid Drake (drums). "Supremely inventive German pianist Georg Gräwe (pronounced gray-vuh) takes his music down a brave new path. Inspired by the hot free-music scene in Chicago, Gräwe -- who now spends part of the year in the Windy City -- recruited gutsy bassist Kent Kessler and master drummer Hamid Drake, both key figures on the Chicago front, and reed player Frank Gratkowski, a frequent sparring-partner from Cologne. Gräwe assembled the group intuitively, eager to work with the Kessler/Drake rhythm machine -- two-thirds of the massively creative DKV Trio -- and confident that the four-way chemistry would click. Little did he know how explosive and dynamic the results would be. While Melodie Und Rhythmus retains the harmonic sophistication and dazzling linearity that has distinguished Gräwe's music in the past, this group allows him to explore vastly different territory from the turf he covers in his celebrated free trio with Gerry Hemingway and Ernst Rejiseger or in his chamber ensemble works. Direct jazz harmonies, intricate polyrhythms, blazing free blowing, and snippets of straight time - prepare to have your preconceptions thoroughly discombobulated!"


Artist: MCPHEE/JEB BISHOP, JOE
Title: The Brass City
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 025CD
"A wonderful meeting between the great multi-horn master from Poughkeepsie NY (Joe McPhee) and up and coming trombone star of the Vandermark 5, Jeb Bishop."


Artist: MORRIS WITH DKV TRIO, JOE
Title: Deep Telling
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 027CD
First studio meeting of Joe Morris and the DKV Trio (Hamid Drake/percussion, Kent Kessler/bass & Ken Vandermark/reeds)."The music on this recording began with the most basic materials: sound, silence, motion, interval, duration and emotion. We started to play without any words, written material or agreed structure and within a couple of minutes we knew it would work. Our agenda seemed to be that we would musically talk with each other. We told each other what we know. We played to make something different, to create another experience for whomever listens. It remains to personal interpretation, to be described by the people who listen." -- Joe Morris.


Artist: PARKER/GEORG GRAWE, EVAN
Title: Unity Variations
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 028CD
"The first recorded meeting between one of the 'leading lights of the post-Ayler' saxophone (Evan Parker) and ground breaking German pianist Georg Gräwe. Recorded during the second Empty Bottle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music at the beautiful and acoustically perfect Frank Lloyd Wright Unity Temple."


Artist: BISHOP TRIO, JEB
Title:
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 029CD
"A trio made up of three members of the Vandermark 5, Kent Kessler on bass and Tim Mulvenna on drums, and led by the wonderful trombone voice of Jeb Bishop doing a disk of his own material (plus a chart by Lisle Ellis)."


Artist: DKV TRIO
Title: Live in Wels and Chicago
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: 2CD
Price: $15.00
Catalog #: OKKA 030CD
"Recorded in the fall of 98 at the famous 'Music Unlimited Festival 98' in Wels, Austria (first disc) and at the Velvet Lounge in Chicago (second disc). This set is highlighted by a paint-peeling version of Don Cherry's Complete Communion that is proof positive that the DKV Trio is 'the best working band in Chicago' and maybe one of the best bands anywhere, improvising or otherwise." DKV Trio is Hamid Drake (drums), Kent Kessler (bass), Ken Vandermark (reeds).


Artist: BROTZMANN CHICAGO TENTET, PETER
Title: Stone/Water
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 032CD
Recorded live at 16th Victoriaville Festival in Quebec, 5/23/99. Brtözmann (tenor sax, clarinet), Gustafsson (tenor sax, flutophone), Vandermark (tenor sax, clarinet, bass clarinet), Bishop (trombone), Kondo (trumpet, electronics), Lomberg-Holm (cello, violin), Parker (bass), Kessler (bass), Zerang (drums), Drake (drums, frame drum).


Artist: PARKER/JOE MCPHEE, EVAN
Title: Chicago Tenor Duets
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 033CD
"11 beautiful/powerful duets by two of improvised music's master musicians. Recorded in one magical afternoon, this is a true summit meeting of tenor titans."


Artist: LOOS
Title: Armstrong
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 034CD
"This is the third recording by Dutch ensemble Loos, led by reed master Peter van Bergen. Inspired by quotations from Louis Armstrong and Sun Ra and using two guitars, percussion, piano, voice, and reeds, this group puts up one hell of a wail. I would say parts Beefheart, John Gilmore, and Morton Feldman. Going to be a big hit with the alt-rockers as well as the free-jazzers."


Artist: AALY/DKV DOUBLE TRIO
Title: Double or Nothing
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 035CD
"The first meeting of the power house Swedish AALY Trio with Chicago's own DKV Trio. Studio recording from 1999. A great addition to both bands discography's. AALY (left channel): Mats Gustafsson (reeds), Kjell Nordeson (drums), Ingebrigt Håker-Flaten (bass). DKV (right channel): Hamid Drake (drums), Kent Kessler (bass), Ken Vandermark (reeds)."


Artist: MCPHEE/HAMID DRAKE, JOE
Title: Emancipation Proclamation, A Real Statement Of Freedom
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 036CD
"Joe McPhee: pocket trumpet & tenor saxophone. Hamid Drake: percussion. The first duo meeting between two greats of modern jazz, recorded live at the Empty Bottle Chicago, June 25, 1999 (in front of 400 crazed fans)."


Artist: SCHOOL DAYS
Title: Crossing Division
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 037CD
"School Days is: Ken Vandermark (reeds), Jeb Bishop (trombone), Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten (bass), Paal Nilssen-Love (drums). Studio meeting of Ken Vandermark's latest group featuring new tunes from Vandermark and Bishop along with two pieces by Roswell Rudd. The first state-side session with the Norwegian rhythm section of Haker-Flaten and Nilsson-Love. Recorded in Chicago March 2000."


Artist: KESSLER, KENT
Title: Bull Fiddle
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 038CD
"First full-length solo recording by the bass backbone of over 20 Okkadisk recordings. He can be heard in Peter Brötzmann's Tentet, Ken Vandermark's Territory Bands, the DKV Trio, the Jeb Bishop Trio, the Georg Gräwe Quartet, as well as numerous other bands including the Vandermark 5. Kent Kessler is one of the world's best know and sought after improvisational bassists. 12 tracks (3 with Michael Zerang on Dumbek)."


Artist: BISHOP TRIO/QUARTET, JEB
Title: Afternoons
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 039CD
"With special guest Jeff Parker on guitar. Jim Mulvenna - drums, Kent Kessler - bass. New studio recording." Jeb Biship (trombone).


Artist: TERRITORY BAND -1
Title: Transatlantic Bridge
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 040CD
"New working group led by Ken Vandermark performing four recent compositions. Using many of Vandermark's Chicago circle of musicians and improvisers (from groups suck as Steam, the DVK Trio & the Vandermark 5) augmented by top flight Europeans, Dorner, and Lytton."


Artist: SCHOOL DAYS
Title: In Our Times
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 041CD
"A live recording from Oslo (2001) and our second release by this international star studded band, featuring newest member Kjell Nordeson on vibraphone. 4 new tunes by Vandermark, one by Bishop and covers of Bill Evans and Don Cherry. Beautiful music! Ken Vandermark (reeds), Jeb Bishop (trombone), Kjell Nordeson (vibraphone), Ingebrigt Håker-Flaten (bass), Paal Nilsson-Love (drums)."


Artist: DVK TRIO
Title: Trigonometry
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: 2CD
Price: $15.00
Catalog #: OKKA 042CD
"A two disc set recorded In 2001 on tour in Rochester, NY & Kalamazoo, Ml. Featuring Hamid Drake - drums, Kent Kessler - bass, Ken Vandermark - reeds. Like the very successful Okka disk release of '99 the DKV Trio Live in Wols & Chicago 1998 this is a two CD set for the price of one. This is totally improvised music."


Artist: BROTZMANN CHICAGO TENTET + TWO, PETER
Title: Broken English
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 043CD
"Two new studio recordings by one of the great bands of the last 10 - 20 years. Recorded after the bands 2000 American tour when they had hit the top of their form. Joe McPhee, Roy Campbell & Jeb Bishop (brass), Ken Vandermark, Mars Williams, Mats Gustafsson & Peter Brötzmann (reeds), Fred Lonberg-Holm, Kent Kessler & William Parker (strings), Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang (drums)."


Artist: BROTZMANN CHICAGO TENTET + TWO, PETER
Title: Short Visit To Nowhere
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 044CD
"Two new studio recordings by one of the great bands of the last 10 - 20 years. Recorded after the bands 2000 American tour when they had hit the top of their form. Joe McPhee, Roy Campbell & Jeb Bishop (brass), Ken Vandermark, Mars Williams, Mats Gustafsson & Peter Brötzmann (reeds), Fred Lonberg-Holm, Kent Kessler & William Parker (strings), Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang (drums)."


Artist: TRIAGE
Title: Twenty Minute Cliff
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 045CD
Dave Rempis (Alto & tenor saxaphone); Jason Ajemian (bass); Tim Daisy (drums).


Artist: VANDERMARK, KEN
Title: Furniture Music
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 046CD
Tenor sax, baritone sax, clarinet, bass clarinet. Works inspired by: Evan Parker, Peter Brötzmann, Michael Snow, Lennie Tristano, Jackson Pollack, Piet Mondrian and Erik Satie, Mark Rothko, Mississippi Fred MacDowell, Samuel Beckett and Morton Feldman, Joe McPhee, John Cage, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Jaap Blonk. "This album has been under personal consideration for quite some time, several years in fact. Throughout the time I have worked as an improvising musician I have been fortunate enough to work in a wide variety of settings -- from duos to large ensembles, groups that work with predesignated material or bands that are free from this, ad hoc settings as well as long term collaborations -- but the issue of creating what I could consider as 'my own' solo improvised music remained elusive despite my many efforts to deal with it. To me, it started to seem as if performing and recording solo music was a necessary aspect of creative expression."


Artist: BROTZMANN CHICAGO TENTET, PETER
Title: Images
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 047CD
"2 new discs of live and studio material from '02 & '03 with new compositions by Brotzmann (both title pieces), Ken Vandermark, Mats Gustafsson and Fred Longberg-Holm."


Artist: BROTZMANN CHICAGO TENTET, PETER
Title: Signs
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 048CD
"2 new discs of live and studio material from '02 & '03 with new compositions by Brotzmann (both title pieces), Ken Vandermark, Mats Gustafsson and Fred Longberg-Holm."


Artist: ATOMIC/SCHOOL DAYS
Title: Nuclear Assembly Hall
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: 2CD
Price: $16.00
Catalog #: OKKA 049CD
"The 3rd release by Ken Vandermark's School Days is a double CD of studio material recorded with the Oslo quintet Atomic. Both bands have the same rhythm section of Paal Nilssen-Love on drums and Ingebrigt HÂker Flaten on bass. The group includes Magnus Broo: trumpet, Jeb Bishop: trombone, Fredrik Liungkvist: reeds, Ken Vandermark: reeds, Hevard Wiik: piano & Kjell Nordeson: vibraphone. 9 new compositions 1 each by all the members (2 by Mr. Liungkvist)."


Artist: TERRITORY BAND -2
Title: Atlas
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 050CD
"The second installment from Ken Vandermark's highly praised international all star band. This time around the group performs 4 new compositions by Mr. Vandermark and includes Jim Baker (piano), Jeb Bishop (trombone), Axel Doerner (trumpets), Kevin Drumm (electronics), Per-Ake Holmlander (tuba), Kent Kessler (bass), Fredrik Ljungkvist (reeds), Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello), Paul Lytton (drums), Tim Mulvenna (percussion), Dave Rempis (saxophones), Ken Vandermark (reeds)."


Artist: FME
Title: Underground
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 051CD
FME = Free Music Ensemble. Featuring: Paal Nilssen-Love (percussion), Nate McBride (bass), Ken Vandermark (reeds). First studio recording, recorded 2003.


Artist: TRIAGE
Title: American Mythology
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 052CD
"Third release from rising stars of the Chicago jazz/improv scene. featuring Dave Rempis (alto & tenor saxophone) -- Jason Ajemian (bass) -- Tim Daisy (drums). Dave Rempis and Tim Daisy are both members of the Vandermark 5. The disc features 6 compositions by Dave Rempis and 2 by Tim Daisy."


Artist: SONORE
Title: No One Ever Works Alone
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 053CD
"This is a new trio featuring Peter Broetzmann (A-clarinet/tarogato-alto/tenor & bass saxophone) -- Mats Gustafsson (tenor & baritone saxophone) -- Ken Vandermark (B-flat-clarinet - tenor & baritone Saxophone). Recorded live at the LOFT in Koln Oct. '03. 7 improvised pieces."


Artist: BAKER/HUNT/SANDSTROM/WILLIAMS
Title: Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 056CD
"Extraordinary Popular Delusions is a new studio recording by four master musicians who have been living and exuding wondrous, beautiful and mind-blowing jazz and improvised music together in Chicago for over 20 years (thank you Hal Russell & Ken Vandermark). This is a truly magical recording!" Jim Baker (piano, synthesizer, electric piano), Steve Hunt (drums), Brian Sandstrom (bass, electric guitar), Mars Williams (saxophones).


Artist: ENGINES, THE
Title: The Engines
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 057CD
"The Engines is a new quartet featuring: Jeb Bishop (trombone), Dave Rempis (reeds); Nate McBride (bass); Tim Daisy (drums). This self-titled disc is a set of wonderful fluid compositions (two each by the members of the group) recorded in Chicago, in November 2006. The disc is set off by tight and cohesive group interaction. Another high water mark for the carriers of all concerned and proof that forward-thinking jazz still thrives in the heartland."


Artist: BROTZMANN CHICAGO TENTET, PETER
Title: Be Music, Night
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 059CD
Featuring Mike Pearson: A Homage to Kenneth Patchen. Peter Brötzmann, Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark: reeds; Joe McPhee: trumpet/alto sax; Jeb Bishop: trombone; Fred Lonberg-Holm: cello; Kent Kessler: bass; Paal Nilssen-Love, Michael Zerang: drums; Mike Person: voice. Recorded by Bob Weston Nov. 5&6 2004.


Artist: TERRITORY BAND-3
Title: Map Theory
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: 2CD
Price: $16.00
Catalog #: OKKA 060CD
"This is the latest studio recording by Ken Vandermark's Territory Band. The double disc set was recorded in Sept. of 2002 at the last meeting of this group. At the time it consisted of Ken Vandermark, Dave Rempis & Fredrik Ljungkvist - reeds : Jeb Bishop - trombone : Axel Doerner - trumpet : Per-Ake Holmlander - tuba : Kevin Drumm - electronics : Jim Baker - keyboards : Fred Lonberg-Holm - cello : Kent Kessler - bass : Paul Lytton & Paal Nilsson-Love - drums. Featuring five new Vandermark compositions."


Artist: FME
Title: Cuts
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 061CD
"New studio recording from the Free Music Ensemble. Recorded in Oslo Norway in October 2004. This is the groups second studio recording for Okkadisk." Ken Vandermark: reeds; Nate McBride: bass; Paal Nilssen-Love: drums.


Artist: BROTZMANN/JOE MCPHEE/KENT KESSLER/MICHAEL ZERANG, PETER
Title: Guts
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 062CD
"This disc was recorded live at the Empty Bottle in Chicago by Malachi Ritschter on Aug. 3, 2005. Featuring 59 mins. of great new music."


Artist: VANDERMARK/PANDELIS KARAYORGIS, KEN
Title: Foreground Music
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 065CD
"Beautiful duo material from old friends Karayorgis on piano and Vandermark on reeds. Recorded in Boston on Jan. 14, 2006."


Artist: BROTZMANN CHICAGO TENTET, PETER
Title: American Landscapes 1
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 067CD
"Part one of a 2-disc series containing new material by Peter Brotzmann from the 2006 European tour. Peter Brotzmann, Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark (reeds), Joe McPhee (trumpet & alto), Hannes Bauer (trombone), Per-Ake Holmlander (tuba), Fred Longberg-Holm (cello), Kent Kessler (bass), Paal Nilssen-Love, Michael Zerang (drums)."


Artist: BROTZMANN CHICAGO TENTET, PETER
Title: American Landscapes 2
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 068CD
"Part two of a 2-disc series containing new material by Peter Brotzmann from the 2006 European tour. Peter Brotzmann, Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark (reeds), Joe McPhee (trumpet & alto), Hannes Bauer (trombone), Per-Ake Holmlander (tuba), Fred Longberg-Holm (cello), Kent Kessler (bass), Paal Nilssen-Love, Michael Zerang (drums)."


Artist: TERRITORY BAND-4
Title: Company Switch
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: 2CD
Price: $16.00
Catalog #: OKKA 070CD
"This is the forth studio release from Ken Vandermark's evolving Territory Band with five new compositions (two different versions of 'Reverse')." Brass: Jeb Bishop, Axel Doerner; Electronics: Lasse Marhaug; Percussion: Paul Lytton, Paal Nilssen-Love; Piano: Jim Baker; Reeds: Fredrik Ljungkvist, Dave Rempis, Ken Vandermark; Strings: Kent Kessler, Fred Lonberg-Holm.


Artist: FREE MUSIC ENSEMBLE
Title: Montage
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: 2CD
Price: $15.00
Catalog #: OKKA 071CD
Ken Vandermark - reeds; Nate McBride - bass; Paal Nilssen-Love - drums. This is a live recording of new material from the trio's last North American tour. The first disc was recorded in Boston and the second in Montreal.


Artist: CHICAGO TENTET
Title: Chicago Tentet At Molde 2007
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 072CD
Recorded in concert at Molde Jazzfestival, Norway, July 20th 2007. Featuring: Joe McPhee, Peter Brötzmann, Kent Kessler, Michael Zerang, Johannes Bauer, Per Ake Holmlander, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, Paal Nilssen-Love.


Artist: ATOMIC/SCHOOL DAYS
Title: Distil
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: 2CD
Price: $16.00
Catalog #: OKKA 073CD
A new live recording from Atomic/School Days. Jeb Bishop (trombone), Magnus Broo (trumpet), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (bass), Fredrik Ljungkvist (reed), Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), Kjell Nordeson (vibraphone), Ken Vandermark (reeds), Håvard Wiik (piano). "Two discs of new material culled from the group's April 21st & 22nd '06 dates at world-famous Chicago jazz club, the Green Mill. Distil is a melding of two outstanding groups with one wonderful rhythm section -- and a great follow-up to Atomic/School Days 2004 Okka Disk release, Nuclear Assembly Hall."


Artist: TERRITORY BAND-5
Title: New Horse for the White House
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: 3CD
Price: $22.00
Catalog #: OKKA 080CD
"This is a three disc set (two studio discs and a live recording) from an October 2005 European tour. Ken Vandermark, Fredrik Ljungkvist, Dave Rempis, Axel Dörner, Johannes Bauer, Per-Ake Holmlander, Jim Baker, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Lasse Marhaug, Kent Kessler, Paul Lytton, Paal Nilssen-Love. Live material recorded October 15, 2005, Donaueschingen Festival, Germany. Studio material recorded October 18-19, 2005, Fattoria Musica, Osnabrück, Germany."


Artist: TERRITORY BAND-6 WITH FRED ANDERSON
Title: Collide
Label: OKKA DISK
Format: CD
Price: $13.00
Catalog #: OKKA 090CD
"Axel Doerner (trumpet); Per-Ake Holmlander (tuba); Lasse Marhaug (electronics); Paul Lytton (percussion); Paal Nilssen-Love (percussion); Jim Baker (piano); Fred Anderson (tenor); Fredrik Ljungkvist (baritone & tenor); Dave Rempis (alto & tenor); Ken Vandermark (tenor & Bb clarinet); Kent Kessler (bass); Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello); David Stackenäs (guitars). The latest release by Ken Vandermark's Territory Band was recorded live, Aug. 24, 2006, as part of the 'Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz' series (in Millennium Park) and gives the group a chance to perform a new extended Vandermark composition that was designed as a back drop for the improvisational skills of Chicago tenor legend, Fred Anderson. A unique environment for the talent of both Fred Anderson and the Territory Band members."

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