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String Trio of New York: The River of Orion: 30 Years Running
by Glenn Astarita
Established in 1979 with the Black Saint album First String, featuring Billy Bang manning the violin chair, the revered band String Trio of New York celebrates its 30-year anniversary with the impressionable effort, The River of Orion: 30 Years Running. Over the years, the trio has invited guest artists, such as saxophonist Oliver Lake and pianist ...
William Parker: Deep Roots
by Kurt Gottschalk
William Parker's East Village apartment is abuzz with activity on what would seem to be a typical November afternoon in the hive of New York free jazz. Cell phones and laptops are whirring, Parker making arrangements for an upcoming tour as his wife, the dancer and tireless organizer Patricia Nicholson, sets details for an upcoming fundraiser ...
Above & Beyond: An Evening In Grand Rapids
By Billy Bang
Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Silent Observation; Nothing but Love; Dark Silhouette; At Play in the Fields of the Lord.
Billy Bang & The Aftermath Band
by AAJ Italy Staff
Aperitivo in Concerto Teatro Manzoni - Milano - 02.12.2007 Strano concerto, questo di Billy Bang. Da un personaggio come lui, frequentatore abituale di una certa avanguardia, ti aspetteresti qualcosa di speciale. Trattandosi poi di un progetto incentrato sul Vietnam, ovvero una delle grandi ferite, mai rimarginate, della società americana, ecco che le aspettative si alzano ulteriormente. ...
Billy Bang Quintet featuring Frank Lowe: Above & Beyond: An Evening in Grand Rapids
by Jeff Stockton
Few musicians in any category combine violinist Billy Bang's intrinsic understanding of his instrument's tradition with the adventurousness associated with the New York City loft scene of the 1970s and wrap it up in an inside-out style honed and refined over the course of a thirty-plus year career. For the last few years ...
Billy Bang: Sweet Space / Untitled Gift
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Violinist Billy Bang has reissued two of his earlier albums on CD for the first time--Sweet Space, a live album from 1979, and Untitled Gift, a 1982 studio set. Both discs have lineups including luminaries like Frank Lowe and Don Cherry. The free structure and embrace of atonality give this music its kick. ...
Vietnam: Reflections
By Billy Bang
Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Reflections; Ru Con; Lock & Load; Ly Ngua O; Doi Moi; Reconciliation 1; Waltz of the Water Puppets; Trong Com; Reconciliation 2
Billy Bang: Untitled Gift
By Billy Bang
Label: Unknown label
Released: 2005
Track listing: cd1: A Pebble Is A Small Rock (Dedicated to Mr. & Mrs. Irving Stone); Sweet Space; Loweski For Frank (T.F.R.); Music For The Love Of It.
cd2: Echovamp; Night Sequence; The Kora Song; Maat; Levitation for Santana; Focus on Sanity.
Billy Bang: Vietnam: Reflections
by Eyal Hareuveni
On the second installment of his Vietnam trilogy, following the highly acclaimed Vietnam: The Aftermath (Justin Time, 2001), violinist Billy Bang continues the healing process. His great achievement is not only personal, having faced the demons of that bloody and futile war as a GI, but also musical as well. Bang succeeds in transforming the harrowing ...
Billy Bang: Configuration & Vietnam: Reflections
by Jeff Stockton
Sirone/Bang Ensemble Configuration Silkheart 2005 The recently reactivated Swedish Silkheart label boasts of its track record for discovering and nurturing noteworthy young drummers, and it's found another one in Tyshawn Sorey. Recorded live at CB's Gallery in New York, the drummer opens this fabulous one-off (so far) with the first ...
