Billy Bang

~ Person

Relationships

member of:	Kahil El’Zabar’s Ritual Trio (ended: violin, bell) Ahmed Abdullah’s Dispersions of the Spirit of Ra (violin) Ahmed Abdullah’s Ebonic Tones (violin) The Roy Campbell Ensemble (violin) Forbidden Planet (jazz group associated with Billy Bang) Material (group and producer team led by Bill Laswell) William Parker Violin Trio (violin) William Parker’s Jeanne Lee Project (violin) Rader Schwarz Group (violin) David Taylor - Steve Swell Quintet (violin)
original eponymous member of:	Billy Bang New York Quintet (violin) Billy Bang Quartet (violin) Billy Bang Quintet (violin) Billy Bang Sextet (Jazz group) (violin) Billy Bang’s Survival Ensemble (violin, percussion) William Hooker/Billy Bang Duo (violin) Frank Lowe/Billy Bang Quartet (violin) Sirone Bang Ensemble (violin)
original member of:	Kahil El’Zabar’s Tri-Factor (Billy Bang, Hamiet Bluiett & Kahil El'Zabar) (violin) FAB Trio (New York jazz trio) (violin) The Jazz Doctors (Billy Bang quartet) (violin) The Music Ensemble (free jazz quintet) (violin, percussion) The Group (New York jazz group, mid 1980's) (from 1986 until 1987: violin)

has personal publisher:	Ghazal Music (Billy Bang publisher)

Discogs:	https://www.discogs.com/artist/174749 [info]
discography pages:	http://www.mindspring.com/~scala/bang.htm [info]
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Myspace:	https://myspace.com/billybangartist [info]
stream for free:	https://open.spotify.com/artist/1ytHXKB2HiX4Bmz8KhjjD5 [info] https://www.deezer.com/artist/1216243 [info]
Allmusic:	https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000085089 [info]
VIAF ID:	76499367 [info]
Wikidata:	Q719058 [info]
Songkick:	https://www.songkick.com/artists/427468 [info]
streaming page:	https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/4301293 [info]

Appearances

Date	Title	Credited as	Attributes	Artist	Length
	instruments
1974-02-26	Rattles and Bells and the Light of the Sun		violin	William Parker	12:14
1974-04-24	Stance Dance (Courage) (live, 1974‐04‐24: Kingsborough College, New York, NY, USA)			The Music Ensemble	31:47
1975-02-15	Arithmetrical Mystic (live, 1975‐02‐15: Holy Name School Auditorium, New York, NY, USA)			The Music Ensemble	18:10
1975-02-15	Echoes Wind Transpire (live, 1975‐02‐15: Holy Name School Auditorium, New York, NY, USA)			The Music Ensemble	8:47
1975-02-15	Radiatory Fineness (live, 1975‐02‐15: Holy Name School Auditorium, New York, NY, USA)			The Music Ensemble	9:56
1976-10-24	Face Still Hands Folded		violin	William Parker	8:02
1977-05-29	Albert Ayler / Know Your Enemy (live, 1977‐05‐29: New York, NY, USA)		violin	Billy Bang’s Survival Ensemble	19:26
1977-05-29	Albert Ayler / Know Your Enemy (live, 1977‐05‐29: New York, NY, USA)		percussion	Billy Bang’s Survival Ensemble	19:26
1977-05-29	Black Man’s Blues (live, 1977‐05‐29: New York, NY, USA)		violin	Billy Bang’s Survival Ensemble	21:10
1977-05-29	Black Man’s Blues (live, 1977‐05‐29: New York, NY, USA)		percussion	Billy Bang’s Survival Ensemble	21:10
1977-05-29	Ganges / Enchantment / Tapestry (live, 1977‐05‐29: New York, NY, USA)		percussion	Billy Bang’s Survival Ensemble	11:34
1977-05-29	Ganges / Enchantment / Tapestry (live, 1977‐05‐29: New York, NY, USA)		violin	Billy Bang’s Survival Ensemble	11:34
1977-05-29	Ganges / Enchantment / Tapestry (continues) (live, 1977‐05‐29: New York, NY, USA)		violin	Billy Bang’s Survival Ensemble	19:13
1977-05-29	Ganges / Enchantment / Tapestry (continues) (live, 1977‐05‐29: New York, NY, USA)		percussion	Billy Bang’s Survival Ensemble	19:13
1978-05-16	For Josie Part II (live, 1978‐05‐16: WKCR, New York, NY, USA)			Billy Bang’s Survival Ensemble	10:28
1978-05-16	Illustration (live, 1978‐05‐16: WKCR, New York, NY, USA)			Billy Bang’s Survival Ensemble	8:15
1978-05-16	Nobody Hear the Music the Same Way (Dedicated to John Coltrane) (live, 1978‐05‐16: WKCR, New York, NY, USA)			Billy Bang’s Survival Ensemble	12:11
1978-05-16	Subhanallah (live, 1978‐05‐16: WKCR, New York, NY, USA)			Billy Bang’s Survival Ensemble	14:16
1978-10-29	Echo Vamp (live, 1978‐10‐29: Tilburg, Netherlands)		violin	Billy Bang	6:53
1978-10-29	Fiddle in the Floodlight (live, 1978‐10‐29: Tilburg, Netherlands)		violin	Billy Bang	6:35
1978-10-29	Prana (live, 1978‐10‐29: Tilburg, Netherlands)		violin	Billy Bang	8:13
1978-10-29	Subway Ride With Giuseppi Logan (live, 1978‐10‐29: Tilburg, Netherlands)		violin	Billy Bang	8:40
1979-08-12	A Pebble Is a Small Rock (live, 1979‐08‐12: Gaku Gallery, New York, NY, USA)		violin	Billy Bang	7:12
1979-08-12	Improvisation for Sweet Space (live, 1979‐08‐12: Gaku Gallery, New York, NY, USA)		violin	Billy Bang	5:39
1979-08-12	Loweski (live, 1979‐08‐12: Gaku Gallery, New York, NY, USA)		violin	Billy Bang	8:00
1979-08-12	Part of a Distinction Without a Difference		violin	Billy Bang	3:45
1979-08-12	Skip to My Lou		violin	Billy Bang	4:00
1979-08-12	Sometime Later		violin	Billy Bang	8:00
1979-08-12	Theme for Masters		violin	Billy Bang	9:50
1979-09-29	Improvisation I (Spiritual) (live, 1979‐09‐29: Radio Station KPFK, Los Angeles, CA, USA)		violin	Billy Bang/John Lindberg	21:30
1979-09-29	Improvisation II (Concept) (live, 1979‐09‐29: Radio Station KPFK, Los Angeles, CA, USA)		violin	Billy Bang/John Lindberg	14:15
1979-09-29	Improvisation III (Melodic Walk) (live, 1979‐09‐29: Radio Station KPFK, Los Angeles, CA, USA)		violin	Billy Bang/John Lindberg	6:45
1979-11-15	A Pebble Is a Small Rock (alternate take)		violin	Billy Bang	14:09
1979-11-15	A Pebble Is a Small Rock (Dedicated to Mr. & Mrs. Irving Stone)		violin	Billy Bang Sextet featuring Frank Lowe	16:37
1979-11-15	Loweski for Frank (alternate take)		violin	Billy Bang	12:13
1979-11-15	Loweski for Frank (T.F.R)		violin	Billy Bang Sextet featuring Frank Lowe	12:50
1979-11-15	Music for the Love of It		violin	Billy Bang Sextet featuring Frank Lowe	5:44
1979-11-15	Music for the Love of It (alternate take)		violin	Billy Bang	4:23
1979-11-15	Sweet Space		violin	Billy Bang Sextet featuring Frank Lowe	5:09
1979-11-15	Sweet Space (alternate take)		violin	Billy Bang	4:43
1980-06-28	Aduwa in Autumn		violin	Billy Bang	10:15
1980-06-28	Summer Night (with Crickets)		violin	Billy Bang	12:45
1980-06-28	Winter Rains		violin	Billy Bang	14:20
1980-12-27	Playful Spring: I. Brass Bow / II. The Elephant & The Mosquito		violin	Billy Bang	4:55
1981-03	Alabama Africa			Billy Bang and Charles Tyler	6:35
1981-03	Aloutte			Billy Bang and Charles Tyler	6:50
1981-03	Closer to the Flowers			Billy Bang and Charles Tyler	12:00
1981-03	Legend of the Lawmen			Billy Bang and Charles Tyler	6:45
1981-03	Viobari			Billy Bang and Charles Tyler	4:25
1981-06	Bang’s Bounce		violin	Billy Bang Quintet	3:23
1981-06	Broken Strings (For Clarence Muse)		violin	Billy Bang Quintet	2:44
1981-06	Ebony Minstrel Man		violin	Billy Bang Quintet	4:16
1981-06	New York After Dark		violin	Billy Bang Quintet	7:20
1981-06	Rainbow Gladiator		violin	Billy Bang Quintet	14:19
1981-06	Yaa - Woman Born on Thursday (For Miss Laurel Van Horn)		violin	Billy Bang Quintet	5:09
1982-02-07	Echo Vamp 1678			Billy Bang	12:08
1982-02-07	Focus on Sanity			Billy Bang	4:20
1982-02-07	Levitation for Santana			Billy Bang	4:10
1982-02-07	Maat			Billy Bang	11:40
1982-02-07	Night Sequence			Billy Bang	5:50
1982-02-07	The Kora Song			Billy Bang	5:48
1982-04	A Minute Later		violin	Billy Bang Quintet	1:04
1982-04	A Pebble Is a Small Rock		violin	Billy Bang Quintet	9:14
1982-04	An Addition to Tradition		violin	Billy Bang Quintet	7:22
1982-04	In a Minute		violin	Billy Bang Quintet	1:05
1982-04	Invitation		violin	Billy Bang Quintet	7:50
1982-04	Loverman		violin	Billy Bang Quintet	5:36
1982-04	Secret Society		violin	Billy Bang Quintet	5:44
1982-07	Conception		violin	Billy Bang	19:01
1982-07	Outline No. 12		violin	Billy Bang	7:01
1982-07	Seeing Together		violin	Billy Bang	13:29
1982-08-29	Air Traffic Control		violin	Billy Bang & Dennis Charles	14:19
1982-08-29	Closer to the Flower		violin	Billy Bang & Dennis Charles	6:47
1982-08-29	Know Your Enemy		violin	Billy Bang & Dennis Charles	7:06
1982-08-29	Lonely Woman		violin	Billy Bang & Dennis Charles	6:13
1982-08-29	Thelonious		violin	Billy Bang & Dennis Charles	7:21
1983-11-08	Ballad With One L.		violin	The Jazz Doctors	8:30
1983-11-08	Blood on the Cross		violin	The Jazz Doctors	4:47
1983-11-08	Little Melonae		violin	The Jazz Doctors	4:59
1983-11-08	Lonely Woman		violin	The Jazz Doctors	12:08
1983-11-08	Loweology		violin	The Jazz Doctors	6:05
1983-11-08	Spooning		violin	The Jazz Doctors	5:13
1984-09	Inorganic Beings		violin	Billy Bang Sextet	5:29
1984-09	Petty Tyrants		violin	Billy Bang Sextet	5:32
1984-09	The Glow of Awareness		violin	Billy Bang Sextet	5:38
1984-09	The Mold of Man		violin	Billy Bang Sextet	7:34
1984-09	The Nagual Julian		violin	Billy Bang Sextet	5:46
1984-09	The New Seers		violin	Billy Bang Sextet	10:41
1984-09	The Shift Below		violin	Billy Bang Sextet	6:24
1984-10-23	I Mean You!		violin	The Jazz Doctors	4:21
1984-10-23	Mr Syms		violin	The Jazz Doctors	7:49
1984-10-23	Pent Up Suite		violin	The Jazz Doctors	3:51
1984-10-23	Suite for Gamma, Pt. 1		violin	The Jazz Doctors	15:38
1984-10-23	Suite for Gamma, Pt. 2		violin	The Jazz Doctors	6:31
1984-12-15	[unknown] (live, 1984‐12‐15: Soundscape at LaMama, New York, NY, USA)		violin	Andrew Cyrille Trio	22:08
1984-12-15	[unknown] (live, 1984‐12‐15: Soundscape at LaMama, New York, NY, USA)		violin	Andrew Cyrille Trio	13:26
1984-12-15	[unknown] (live, 1984‐12‐15: Soundscape at LaMama, New York, NY, USA)		violin	Andrew Cyrille Trio	13:02
1984-12-15	[unknown] (live, 1984‐12‐15: Soundscape at LaMama, New York, NY, USA)		violin	Andrew Cyrille Trio	28:50
1986-05-22	Another Kind of Groove		violin	Kahil El’Zabar’s The Ritual with Billy Bang, Malachi Favors	6:39
1986-05-22	Freedom of Speech		violin	Kahil El’Zabar’s The Ritual with Billy Bang, Malachi Favors	6:51
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	mixed
2004-07-23	Doi moi			Billy Bang	9:22
2004-07-23	Lock and Load			Billy Bang	12:37
2004-07-23	Ly Ngua O			Billy Bang	2:20
2004-07-23	Reconciliation			Billy Bang	8:23
2004-07-23	Reconciliation 2			Billy Bang	12:52
2004-07-23	Reflections			Billy Bang	11:49
2004-07-23	Ru con			Billy Bang	3:23
2004-07-23	Trong Com			Billy Bang	2:29
2004-07-23	Waltz of the Water Puppets			Billy Bang	6:48
	performed
1976-10-24	Face Still Hands Folded		solo	William Parker	8:02
	produced
	Armed (live, 1995‐06‐22: What Is Jazz? Festival 1995, Tap Bar of the Knitting Factory, New York, NY, United States)			William Hooker/Billy Bang Duo	6:32
	Blood and Coffee (Surviving) (live, 1994‐06‐19: What Is Jazz? Festival 1994, Knitting Factory, New York, NY, United States)			William Hooker/Billy Bang Duo	7:42
	Echo Vamp 1678			Billy Bang	12:08
	Electro / Magnetic (live, 1994‐06‐19: What Is Jazz? Festival 1994, Knitting Factory, New York, NY, United States)			William Hooker/Billy Bang Duo	5:13
	Etheric Redemption (live, 1995‐06‐22: What Is Jazz? Festival 1995, Tap Bar of the Knitting Factory, New York, NY, United States)			William Hooker/Billy Bang Duo	10:25
	Focus on Sanity			Billy Bang	4:20
	Hawk (live, 1994‐06‐19: What Is Jazz? Festival 1994, Knitting Factory, New York, NY, United States)			William Hooker/Billy Bang Duo	2:29
	Joy (Within)! (live, 1995‐06‐22: What Is Jazz? Festival 1995, Tap Bar of the Knitting Factory, New York, NY, United States)			William Hooker/Billy Bang Duo	9:39
	Levitation for Santana			Billy Bang	4:10
	Maat			Billy Bang	11:40
	Night Sequence			Billy Bang	5:50
	Righteous (live, 1994‐06‐19: What Is Jazz? Festival 1994, Knitting Factory, New York, NY, United States)			William Hooker/Billy Bang Duo	7:36
	Sweating Brain (live, 1994‐06‐19: What Is Jazz? Festival 1994, Knitting Factory, New York, NY, United States)			William Hooker/Billy Bang Duo	17:05
	The Kora Song			Billy Bang	5:48
	Unknown Island (live, 1994‐06‐19: What Is Jazz? Festival 1994, Knitting Factory, New York, NY, United States)			William Hooker/Billy Bang Duo	2:43
	vocals
1997-03-30	‘Bama Swing (live, 1997-03-30: The Loft of Alain Kirili and Ariane Lopez-Huici)		spoken vocals	Billy Bang	7:15
1997-03-30	‘Bama Swing Again (live, 1997-03-30: The Loft of Alain Kirili and Ariane Lopez-Huici)		spoken vocals	Billy Bang	7:32
1997-03-30	Commandment (live, 1997-03-30: The Loft of Alain Kirili and Ariane Lopez-Huici)		spoken vocals	Billy Bang	7:15
1997-03-30	Daydreams (live, 1997-03-30: The Loft of Alain Kirili and Ariane Lopez-Huici)		spoken vocals	Billy Bang	12:40
1997-03-30	Intro (live, 1997-03-30: The Loft of Alain Kirili and Ariane Lopez-Huici)		spoken vocals	Billy Bang	1:04
1997-03-30	Music for the Love of It (live, 1997-03-30: The Loft of Alain Kirili and Ariane Lopez-Huici)		spoken vocals	Billy Bang	7:09
1997-03-30	Swing Low Sweet Chariot (live, 1997-03-30: The Loft of Alain Kirili and Ariane Lopez-Huici)		spoken vocals	Billy Bang	8:59
1997-03-30	They Plan to Leave (live, 1997-03-30: The Loft of Alain Kirili and Ariane Lopez-Huici)		spoken vocals	Billy Bang	11:33
	September 23rd			Billy Bang Quartet	5:50
	instruments
1974-04-24 – 1975-02-15	The Music Ensemble		violin	The Music Ensemble
1974-04-24 – 1975-02-15	The Music Ensemble		percussion	The Music Ensemble
1978-05-16	New York Collage		percussion	Billy Bang’s Survival Ensemble
1978-05-16	New York Collage		violin	Billy Bang’s Survival Ensemble
1978-05-16	New York Collage		shakers [shaker]	Billy Bang’s Survival Ensemble
1978-05-16	New York Collage		bell [bells]	Billy Bang’s Survival Ensemble
1981-03	Live at Green Space		violin	Billy Bang and Charles Tyler
1981-03	Live at Green Space		bell [bells]	Billy Bang and Charles Tyler
1981-03	Live at Green Space		mbira	Billy Bang and Charles Tyler
1982-02-07	Untitled Gift		bell [bells]	Billy Bang
1982-02-07	Untitled Gift		congas	Billy Bang
1982-02-07	Untitled Gift		flute [yokobue flute]	Billy Bang
1982-02-07	Untitled Gift		violin	Billy Bang
1999-07-26 – 1999-07-27	The Power		violin	Kahil El’Zabar’s Tri-Factor
2004-02-27	Traveling the Spaceways		violin	Ahmed Abdullah’s Dispersions of the Spirit of Ra
2009-05-08	Medicine Buddha		mbira [thumb piano]	Billy Bang / William Parker
2009-05-08	Medicine Buddha		violin	Billy Bang / William Parker
	Another Kind of Groove		bell	Kahil El’Zabar’s The Ritual with Billy Bang, Malachi Favors
	Experience		violin	World Saxophone Quartet
	liner notes
2001-09	Vietnam: The Aftermath			Billy Bang
	Invitation			Billy Bang Quintet
	Outline Nº 12			Billy Bang
	Outline No. 12			Billy Bang
	Prayer for Peace			Billy Bang
	Spirits Gathering			Billy Bang Quartet
	The Music Ensemble			The Music Ensemble
	produced
	Bang On!			Billy Bang
	Big Bang Theory			Billy Bang
	Changing Seasons			Billy Bang
	Hip Hop Be Bop			Billy Bang & Craig Harris & Henry Threadgill
	Joy (Within)!			William Hooker/Billy Bang Duo
	New York Collage	B. Bang		Billy Bang’s Survival Ensemble
	Sweet Space			Billy Bang Sextet featuring Frank Lowe
	Sweet Space / Untitled Gift			Billy Bang
	Vietn★m: Reflections			Billy Bang
	Vietnam: The Aftermath			Billy Bang
	vocals
1978-05-16	New York Collage		spoken vocals [poetry]	Billy Bang’s Survival Ensemble
1988-04-19 – 1988-04-20	Valve No. 10		spoken vocals	Billy Bang Quartet
	arranged
	A Pebble Is a Small Rock (Billy Bang/Butch Morris septet arrangement)
	Down Home
	Joann’s Green Satin Dress (Billy Bang arrangement)
	Loweski for Frank (T.F.R)
	Ly Ngua O (Billy Bang arrangement)
	Music for the Love of It
	NOT JUST
	Ru con (Billy Bang arrangement)
	SOFAR Channel
	Trong Com (Billy Bang arrangement)
	composed
	A Minute Later
	A Pebble Is a Small Rock
	A Pebble Is a Small Rock (Billy Bang/Butch Morris septet arrangement)
	A Pebble Is a Small Rock
	Abuella
	Aduwa in Autumn
	Air Traffic Control
	Alabama Africa
	Aliens
	An Addition to Tradition
	Armed
	At Play in the Fields of the Lord	Billy “Bang” Walker
	Autumn
	B.B.
	Ballad With One L.
	Bama Swing	Billy Bang Walker
	Bang’s Bounce
	Bien-Hoa Blues
	Blood and Coffee (Surviving)
	Broken Strings (For Clarence Muse)
	Bronx Aborigines
	Closer to the Flowers
	Coligno Battatta
	Commandment
	Conception
	Dance of the Manakin
	Dark Silhouette
	Daydreams
	Doi moi
	Don’s Dream	Billy Bang Walker
	Don’s Dream (Forbidden Planet arrangement)
	Down Home
	Ebony Minstrel Man
	Echo Vamp
	Echoes
	Echovamp 1678
	Electro / Magnetic
	Etheric Redemption
	FAB
	Fabmusic Continuation
	Fabmusic Opening
	Fiddle in the Floodlight
	For Bea
	For Don Cherry
	For Frank Lowe
	For Josie Part II
	Freedom Flexibility
	From Here to There
	From the Waters of New Orleans
	Funkin’ With the Aliens (Forbidden Planet arrangement)
	Going Through
	Gotta Dance (Forbidden Planet arrangement)
	Hawk
	Hip Hop Be Bop
	History of Jazz in Reverse
	Homeward Bound
	I Promise You the Moon
	I’m Billy Bang (Forbidden Planet arrangement)
	If You Like It, Lick It
	Implications
	Improvisation for Four
	Improvisation for Sweet Space
	Improvisation I (Spiritual)
	Improvisation II (Concept)
	Improvisation III (Melodic Walk)
	In a Minute
	Inorganic Beings
	Joy (Within)!
	Jupiter’s Future
	Levitation for Santana
	Lock and Load
	Loweski
	Loweski for Frank (T.F.R)
	M’Am
	Maat
	Medicine Buddha
	Monkey Joe Coleman (Forbidden Planet arrangement)
	New York After Dark
	Nobody Hear the Music the Same Way
	NOT JUST
	Notre Dame de la Garde
	One for Jazz (For Dennis Charles)	Billy “Bang” Walker
	Outline No.12
	Part of a Distinction Without a Difference
	Peaceful Dreams	Billy Bang Walker
	Petty Tyrants
	Pieta
	Playful Spring: I. Brass Bow
	Playful Spring: II. The Elephant & The Mosquito
	Prayer for Peace
	Rainbow Gladiator
	Reconciliation
	Reconciliation 2
	Reflections
	Riding With Ra
	Righteous
	Sad Song
	Sakura (Forbidden Planet arrangement)
	Secret Society
	Seeing Together
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	dedicated works
	Psalm for Billy Bang
	lyrics
	Illustration
	wrote
	Bien-Hoa Blues
	Fire in the Hole
	Moments for the KIAMIA
	Mystery of the Mekong
	Saigon Phunk
	TET Offensive
	Tunnel Rat (Flashlight and a 45)
	Yo! Ho Chi Minh Is in the House

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