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Billy Bang
Outline No. 12

Album US 1983 on Celluloid label
Jazz and Classical (Modern, Contemporary Jazz, Free Improvisation, Free Jazz)

"This music is some of the most adventurous and challenging I have done to date. I have attempted to write in musical curves prior to this recording, but not for nearly as many instruments. I believe this is only the beginning, the prototype for a much larger and involved body of work. These compositions enabled me to better understand the styles of phrase-length writing, polyphonic texture, and atonal group articulation. I must take my hat off to Mr. Lawrence "Butch" Morris, who faithfully conducted and interpreted the compositions. From the beginning of the recording, Butch was in complete control, inserting all the appropriate dynamics, to better accentuate the character and colors of the music. Butch spiritually brought out the virtuosity of all the musicians, in both written and improvised sections. It was my good fortune to know the musicians personally before we undertook this project. This enabled me to write within the range of the musicians' personalities. This concept is not new, it has been used by composers and arrangers from Duke Ellington to Sun Ra, but it does allow an effective musicial vision to develop. To achieve the proper balance between written and free techniques, I needed musicians equally proficient in both categories. (...)" Billy Bang Recorded at OAO Studio, Brooklyn, NYC, July 1982

Musicians

	Billy Bang vn, 1947-2011 US violin, composed by, album by
	David Murray ts, bcl, *1955 US bass clarinet
	Henry Warner as, cwb, perc, clarinet, alto
	Charles Tyler as, bs, 1941-1992 US clarinet, b flat
	Butch Morris cor, 1947-2013 US conductor
	Wilber Morris b, 1937-2002 US double bass
	Khuwana Fuller cng, percussion
	Sunny Murray dr, *1936 US percussion
	Frank Lowe ts, 1943-2003 US soprano saxophone
	Khan Jamal vib, mar, *1946 US vibraphone
	Jason Hwang vn, violin
	Joseph Hailes violin

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