Commandment (For the Sculpture of Alain Kirili)

Commandment (For the Sculpture of Alain Kirili)
Live album by
Released1997
RecordedMarch 30, 1997
VenueThe loft of Alain Kirili and Ariane Lopez-Huici, New York City
GenreFree jazz
LabelNo More Records
No.5
ProducerAlan Schneider
Billy Bang chronology
Bang On!
(1997)
Commandment (For the Sculpture of Alain Kirili)
(1997)
Big Bang Theory
(2000)

Commandment (For the Sculpture of Alain Kirili) is a live solo album by violinist Billy Bang. It was recorded on March 30, 1997, at the loft of sculptor Alain Kirili and photographer Ariane Lopez-Huici in New York City, and was released later that year by No More Records.

Kirili and Lopez-Huici began sponsoring programs of free jazz in their loft during the 1980s, and went on to present seven or eight concerts a year. Other than Bang, guest musicians included Steve Lacy, Cecil Taylor, Roscoe Mitchell, Archie Shepp, Sunny Murray, and Roswell Rudd. On the album, which was conceived as a dialogue between Bang and Kirili, the violinist can be heard responding to aspects of Kirili's sculptures as he walked among them.