Ken Vandermark

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ken Vandermark
Occupation	Saxophonist
Date Of Birth	Sep 22, 1964(1964-09-22)
Age	60
Birthplace	Warwick
Country	United States
Birth City	Rhode Island
Horoscope	Virgo

Ken Vandermark Biography

Ken Vandermark is one of the most popular and richest Saxophonist who was born on September 22, 1964 in Warwick, Rhode Island, United States. 1999 MacArthur Fellow, multi-instrumentalist, and member of the NRG Ensemble who was the subject material for Daniel Kraus’s documentary Musician.

Vandermark has arranged the work of many artists, including Cecil Taylor.

Vandermark led a jazz trio, the Fourth Stream, in Montreal while he was an undergraduate at McGill University. He graduated in 1986 with a degree in English but focusing on cinema. After graduation, he led or co-led groups (including Lombard Street and Mr. Furious) in Boston.

Vandermark has lived in Chicago since autumn 1989. Since then, he has performed or recorded with many musicians (including Hal Russell, Paal Nilssen-Love, Hamid Drake, Fred Anderson, David Stackenäs, Paul Lytton, Joe Morris, Ab Baars, The Ex, Mikolaj Trzaska, Marcin Oles, Waclaw Zimpel, Axel Doerner, Mats Gustafsson, Bartlomiej Oles, Wolter Wierbos, Joe McPhee, Zu, Peter Brötzmann, Fredrik Ljungkvist, Paul Lovens, Lasse Marhaug, Yakuza, Kevin Drumm, and members of Superchunk). He first gained widespread attention while with the NRG Ensemble from 1992 to 1996. He was once a member of Witches and Devils and the Flying Luttenbachers and has led or co-led several groups, including DKV Trio, Free Fall, Territory Band, CINC, Sonore, the Vandermark 5, the Free Music Ensemble, School Days, the Sound in Action Trio, Steam and Powerhouse Sound.

He was born in Warwick, Rhode Island but grew up in Massachusetts.

Ken Vandermark Net Worth

Ken Vandermark is one of the richest Saxophonist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ken Vandermark 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He attended McGill University in Montreal where he played with a variety of bands. He moved back to Boston to lead Lombard Street and Mr. Furious, as well as other groups.

He spent a lot of time in Chicago collaborating with an array of local musicians, including members from Superchunk.

Ken Vandermark (born September 22, 1964) is an American jazz composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist.

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The Joe Harriott Project, a brief celebration of Harriott in 1998 in the Chicago area, consisted of Ken Vandermark (reeds), Jeb Bishop (trombone), Kent Kessler (bass), and Tim Mulvenna (drums). The band played the music of Joe Harriott, transcribed and arranged by Vandermark.

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Ken Ranked on the list of most popular Saxophonist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Ken Vandermark celebrates birthday on September 22 of every year.

In 1999 Vandermark was awarded a $265,000 MacArthur Fellowship, a prize then awarded on an age-based scale to creative leaders and meant to enable them to pursue their creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations. The fellowship was somewhat controversial, due to Vandermark’s relative youth and obscurity: he was 35 and known mostly in Chicago, while other jazz performers awarded the fellowship were older and better-known (e.g., Cecil Taylor, George Russell).