Outline_No._12
Outline No. 12
1983 studio album by Billy Bang
Outline No. 12 is an album by Billy Bang. Featuring three ensemble works composed by Bang and conducted by Lawrence "Butch" Morris, it was recorded during July 1982 at OAO Studio in Brooklyn, New York, and was released on vinyl in 1983 by Celluloid Records. In 2017, it was reissued in digital / remastered form by Bill Laswell. On the album, Bang is heard on violin, and is joined by clarinetists Charles Tyler, Henri Warner, and David Murray, saxophonist Frank Lowe, violinists Jason Hwang and Joseph Hailes, vibraphonist Khan Jamal, double bassist Wilber Morris, and percussionists John "Khuwana" Fuller and Sunny Murray.[1][2][3][4][5]
In the album liner notes, Bang described the compositions as "some of the most adventurous and challenging I have done to date," and noted: "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."[6]