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Vietnam: The Aftermath is an album by violinist Billy Bang. It was recorded on April 13 and 14, 2001, at Sorcerer Sound in New York City, and was released later that year by Justin Time Records.
Jan 4, 2007 · As a belated document of his traumatic experience as a soldier in Southeast Asia, Vietnam: The Aftermath was a painful but cathartic album for free jazz violin great Billy Bang to make. Joined by fellow Vietnam vets including tenor saxophonist Frank Lowe, trumpeter Ted Daniel, drummer Michael Carvin, and "conductionist" Butch Morris, Bang ...
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Dec 1, 2001 · All this experience comes to bear on Vietnam: The Aftermath, which pursues an eclectic blend of Eastern musics, open improvisation, funk and swing. Five of the members of this septet also served in the military, which adds significant depth to the group's approach to this most unusual theme.
Jun 22, 2002 · Enlisting help from five other Vietnam vets (Ted Daniel, Frank Lowe, Ron Brown, Michael Carvin, and Butch Morris conducting one track), as well as three civilian musicians, Bang creates music that resonates with the sound of the Southeast Asian scales he came upon in Vietnam, but holds onto the funk and bebop that he carried with him throughout.
Morris was born in Long Beach, California, United States. Before beginning his musical career, he served in the U.S. Army as a medic in Germany, Japan and Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Morris came to attention with saxophonist David Murray's groups in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Oct 23, 2001 · View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2001 CD release of "Vietnam: The Aftermath" on Discogs.
May 1, 2002 · The music moves evenly with a peaceful country air. Dirges, dances, ceremonial rites, a little dramatic counterpoint, and swinging anthems take on surreal qualities through Billy Bang's compositions. It's been a long time, but those memories linger.
