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ALP 184CD
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"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."
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ALP 173CD
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"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."
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ALP 128CD
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"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'."
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ALP 121CD
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"Burn the Incline illustrates a real compositional breakthrough for Ken & the V5; the elemental ingredients have been recast, resulting in a set of their most challenging, yet enjoyable numbers ever committed to tape by the group in their five year existence."
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