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September 21–28, 2000

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Ken Vandermark

It’s hard to keep up with Ken Vandermark. The Chicago-based saxophonist/clarinetist, who turns 36 this week, has already achieved near-legendary status as an improviser and scene-maker. Last year he won a MacArthur Fellowship — the prestigious and coveted "Genius Grant." Since then, his output has been positively prodigious; he has released no fewer than a dozen albums, each with a different thrust. English Suites (Wobbly Rail) is an exploratory tete-a-tete with drummer Paul Lytton, while Spaceways Incorporated (Atavistic) examines the otherworldly interstices between Parliament/Funkadelic and Sun Ra. And now, hot off the presses: Burn the Incline (Atavistic), his newest Vandermark 5 release. If past performance is any indication, this group’s edgy but tuneful avant-jazz (think Dolphy with Ornette Coleman, through a post-punk prism) should fuel one of this year’s must-have discs (and one of its must-see gigs).

Nate Chinen

Wed., Sept. 27, 9:30 p.m. Plays & Players Theatre Club, 1714 Delancey St., $15, 215-735-0630, visit home.att.net/~lankina/sweetnighter

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