Sunday, July 14, 2024

Ken Vandermark - Sunday Interview

Photo by Peter Gannushkin
  1. What is your greatest joy in improvised music?

    Creating new music in real time.

  2. What quality do you most admire in the musicians you perform with?

    Risk

  3. Which historical musician/composer do you admire the most?

    Duke Ellington

  4. If you could resurrect a musician to perform with, who would it be?

    Derek Bailey

  5. What would you still like to achieve musically in your life?

    To create something as good as Billie Holiday’s work with Lester Young.

  6. Are you interested in popular music and - if yes - what music/artist do you particularly like?

    Sly Stone and the Family Stone

  7. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

    To be multilingual.

  8. Which of your albums are you most proud of?

    Haven’t made it yet.

  9. Once an album of yours is released, do you still listen to it? And how often?

    No and never.

  10. Which album (from any musician) have you listened to the most in your life?

    Anthony Braxton’s, Dortmund (Quartet) 1976 [hat ART]

  11. What are you listening to at the moment?

    Erik Satie

  12. What artist outside music inspires you?

    Chantal Akerman

Ken Vandermark on the Free Jazz Blog*:
*In the compilation process of this list, it was amazing how often Ken Vandermark was mentioned as a touchstone of some sort. From style of music, to have recorded with, to craft, the list was double what is presented here. Of course, there are likely many that have slipped through the filter still, thus some of the articles listed here may reference Ken Vandermark and not be a recording he was involved with making.
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3 comments:

Moe said...

Saw him 7 years ago with Marker. Great concert. Great short interview. Thanks I love the blog and check it every day

July 14, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Nikolai Shienok said...

One of my favorite musicians for many years. Sow him many times in Moscow DOM (Sonore, Lean Left, Fire Room, DEK Trio, Made to Break, Duo with Paal Nilssen-Love...). I often think about those wonderful and peaceful years and miss them madly.

July 14, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Nikolai Shienok said...

The first word in the second sentence above should be "saw". My apologies for unfortunate mistype.

July 16, 2024 at 6:07 PM

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