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Billy Bang
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Big Bang theory (JUST1352)
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1947-10-20
- Active to
- 2011-04-11
avant-garde jazzfree jazzhard bopjazzpost-bop
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4,575
- Total plays
- 39,637
Tags
violinfree jazzjazzfree-jazzavant garde
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 a violin instead of either of his first choices, the saxophone or
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Vincent
- Family name
- Walker
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Mobile
- Place of death
- Harlem
- Occupation
- violinist
- Genre
- jazz
- Conflict
- Vietnam War
- Image
- Billy Bang.png
- Work location
- New York City
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- Commons category
- Billy Bang
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- date of birth
- 1947-09-20
- date of death
- 2011-04-11
- manner of death
- natural causes
- place of burial
- Woodlawn Cemetery
- birth name
- William Vincent Walker
- pseudonym
- Billy Bang
- start of work period
- 1972-00-00
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