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Billy Bang: Vietnam: Reflections
by Jim Santella
From jazz's modern edge comes Billy Bang's second reflection on the impact of the Vietnam war experience. Along with fellow Vietnam veterans Ron Brown, Butch Morris, Michael Carvin, and Ted Daniel, the creative violinist interprets a program of originals and traditional folk songs (from Vietnam) to remember the people whose lives were changed. On both sides. ...
Billy Bang: Vietnam: Reflections
by John Kelman
With his previous record, Vietnam: The Aftermath, violinist, veteran, and anti-war activist Billy Bang exorcized some of the demons that continued to haunt him for thirty years following his return from a tour of duty in Vietnam in the '60s. With Vietnam: Reflections, an album that blends traditional Vietnamese folk melodies with modal grooves and tender ...
Billy Bang: Untitled Gift
by Rex Butters
Billy Bang Untitled Gift 8th Harmonic Breakdown 2005 This essential set reactivates two historic sessions led by vibrant violinist Billy Bang. Like the legacies of too many innovators of the last 25 years, Bang's sweetness, bravado, and blues traveling the outlands languishes in small label vaults, like those ...
Billy Bang
by Robert Spencer
Violinist Billy Bang is a marvelous bridge from early jazz - his strong influence and tribute subject Stuff Smith - to the most cutting-edge innovations of the avant-garde. His violin playing is astonishingly versatile, encompassing the lyricism of classical playing, a considerable rhythmic sense, and a flair for the dramatic that makes his solos consistently listenable ...
Unsung Recordings by Billy Bang
by Robert Spencer
Rainbow Gladiator 1981 Soul Note Expansive and warm, this is one of Billy Bang's best recordings. Tyler had a rough, appealing tone, and he was able to match the passionate lyricism of Bang's own playing. Morris is an uncommonly strong bassist; Rosewoman plays with authority; Dennis Charles is deservedly legendary. The title ...
A Fireside Chat with Billy Bang
by AAJ Staff
Billy Bang hasn't had an easy life, but neither is the music he plays. Bang's improvisations require advanced citizenship. Concentration in an age where the average attention span rivals the box office presence of Gigli (Martin Brest/Bennifer film apparently seen by two people, who told two other people). But to his credit, through difficult times, he ...
Vietnam: The Aftermath
By Billy Bang
Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Yo! Ho-Chi-Minh is in the House; Moments for the KIAMIA; Tunnel Rat (Flashlight and a .45); TET Offensive; Bien Hoa Blues; Mystery of the Mekong; Fire in the Hole; Saigon Phunk.
Billy Bang: Vietnam: The Aftermath
by Matt Rand
After a particularly intense solo, Frank Lowe slung his tenor saxophone over his right shoulder and looked toward the floor. Covered by a large knit cap, Billy Bang's tenor player held the pose throughout the trumpet solo, seemingly unaware of the machine gun his instinctive stance suggested he was carrying. It was a private ...
Billy Bang: Vietnam: The Aftermath
by Jim Santella
The CD itself is painted olive drab. The cover features other shades of green in faded photographs. The music moves evenly with a peaceful country air. Dirges, dances, ceremonial rites, a little dramatic counterpoint, and swinging anthems take on surreal qualities through Billy Bang's compositions. It's been a long time, but those memories linger. ...
