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Billy Bang Quintet

Billy Bang Quintet has been played on NTS in shows including All Styles All Smiles, featured first on 30 April 2018. Songs played include Rainbow Gladiator and A Pebble Is A Small Rock.

Billy Bang (b. William Vincent Walker, Mobile, Alabama, September 20, 1947 & died on Apr 11th 2011) was an American free jazz violinist and composer.

Bang's family moved to New York City's Bronx neighborhood while he was still an infant, and as a child he attended a special school for musicians in nearby Harlem. At that school, students were assigned instruments based on their physical size. Bang was fairly small, so he received…

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Rainbow Gladiator
Billy Bang Quintet
Soul Note1981
Rainbow Gladiator
Billy Bang QuintetSoul Note1981
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A Pebble Is A Small Rock
Billy Bang Quintet
Soul Note1982
A Pebble Is A Small Rock
Billy Bang QuintetSoul Note1982
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