Tracklist

A1	Seeing Together	13:29
A2	Outline No. 12	7:01
B	Conception	19:01

Credits

• Bass Clarinet – David Murray
• Clarinet [Alto] – Henri Warner*
• Clarinet [B Flat] – Charles Tyler
• Conductor – Lawrence "Butch" Morris*
• Double Bass – Wilber Morris
• Percussion – John "Khuwana" Fuller*, Sunny Murray
• Recorded By – Martin Bisi
• Soprano Saxophone – Frank Lowe
• Vibraphone – Khan Jamal
• Violin – Jason Hwang, Joseph Hailes
• Violin, Composed By – Billy Bang

Notes

"This music is some of the most adventurous and challenging I have done to date. I have attempted to write in musical curves prior to this recording, but not for nearly as many instruments. I believe this is only the beginning, the prototype for a much larger and involved body of work. These compositions enabled me to better understand the styles of phrase-length writing, polyphonic texture, and atonal group articulation.

I must take my hat off to Mr. Lawrence "Butch" Morris, who faithfully conducted and interpreted the compositions. From the beginning of the recording, Butch was in complete control, inserting all the appropriate dynamics, to better accentuate the character and colors of the music. Butch spiritually brought out the virtuosity of all the musicians, in both written and improvised sections.

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. To achieve the proper balance between written and free techniques, I needed musicians equally proficient in both categories. (...)" Billy Bang

Recorded at OAO Studio, Brooklyn, NYC, July 1982

Manufactured by CBS/Sony Inc (Tokyo/Japan)
¥2,500
Japanese Pressing includes insert with liner notes in Japanese.

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
CELL 5004	Billy Bang	Outline No. 12 ‎(LP, Album)	Celluloid	CELL 5004	US	1983
CEL 6704	Billy Bang	Outline No. 12 ‎(LP, Album)	Celluloid	CEL 6704	France	1982
CELCD 5004	Billy Bang	Outline No.12 ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Celluloid	CELCD 5004	US	Unknown
CDGR 256	Billy Bang	Outline No.12 ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Celluloid	CDGR 256	Europe	1998
none	Billy Bang	Outline No.12 ‎(3xFile, ALAC, Album, RE, RM)	Not On Label (Bill Laswell Self-Released)	none	US	2017

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