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01. BILLY BANG - Improvisation For Sweet Space
02. BILLY BANG - Loweski
03. BILLY BANG - Part Of A Distinction Without A Difference
04. BILLY BANG - Theme For Masters
05. BILLY BANG - Sometime Later
06. BILLY BANG - Skip To My Lou
07. BILLY BANG - Prana
08. BILLY BANG - Echo Vamp
09. BILLY BANG - Subway Ride (with Giuseppi Logan)
10. BILLY BANG - A Pebble Is A Small Rock
11. BILLY BANG - Fiddle In The Floodlight
ARTIST
TITLE
Distinction Without A Difference
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
CVSD 035CD CVSD 035CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
8/11/2017

A reissue of the long out-of-print first solo record by American violinist Billy Bang (1947-2011), recorded at Gaku Gallery in New York on August 12, 1979. Originally released on Hat Hut Records in 1980. Distinction Without A Difference features Bang's own compositions, extrapolated at length in an intimate live concert, as well as traditional and improvised material. Remastered from original tapes and augmented by newly discovered recordings from the same concert. Part of the large cache of historical Hat Hut records that Corbett vs. Dempsey continues to release. Classic American creative music on CD for the first time. Features five previously unreleased tracks: Tracks 7-9 and 11 were recorded in Tilberg, Netherlands on October 29, 1978; Track 10 is a recording from the New York concert on August 12, 1979; "Subway Ride" feautures Giuseppi Logan.