Ken Vandermark's fourth collection with the Territory Band, Company Switch, continues to mine ideas too big for the Vandermark 5. Lasse Marhaug, who replaces Kevin Drumm on electronics, seems more ...

Ken Vandermark's ongoing Territory Band makes its third appearance on Map Theory, a sprawling and challenging album of six tunes. The large group format (twelve musicians strong) and the crew's ...

From the start, Ken Vandermark conceived the Territory Band as a forum where local free-jazz musicians and European free improvisers of different generations (such as veteran percussionist Paul Lytton ...

One of the first projects Ken Vandermark funded with his generous MacArthur grant was his first bona fide large group, the Territory Band. The core of the outfit, assembled last winter, was a cluster ...