Spaceways Incorporated Discography of CDs

Spaceways Incorporated discography Spaceways Incorporated, who include Chicago jazzer and McArthur Foundation "Genius" grant winner Ken Vandermark, perform free jazz, avant-rock, and hard-swinging post-bop jazz with dynamism and sharp technique. Here, they pay tribute to two cosmic aggregations, the Sun Ra Arkestra and Funkadelic, selecting choice covers, taking them down to the street-corner, and from there beaming them into outer space. They bring a funk-tinged quasi-Latin groove to Sun ...

Spaceways Incorporated CD discography Spaceways Incorporated/Zu (Italy): Luca T. Mai (saxophone); Massimo Pupillo, Nate McBride (bass guitar); Jacopo Battaglia (drums); Hamid Drake, Ken Vandermark. The helpful folks at Atavistic suggest the term "bronto-bassism" to describe the music of this ad hoc collective, which includes members of the Italian free jazz trio Zu and Chicago noisemakers Spaceways Inc. It's as good a designation as any, especially on the vaguely funky, ponderous-yet-agile ...

Spaceways Incorporated songs Spaceways Inc. has thrown a sexy curveball at those who deemed the band a sideways project for saxophonist Ken Vandermark, drummer Hamid Drake, and bassist Nate McBride. Certainly the band's debut, Thirteen Cosmic Standards by Sun Ra & Funkadelic (also on Atavistic), offered this impression, though in all fairness it was a studio reflection of the band's first gigs. Version Soul is perhaps the ...