BILLIE DAVIES Music

Power Players: Billie Davies plays her own music - OffBeat Magazine : Noé Cugny talks about Billie Davies, who has used the drums as a means to express herself freely for more than 40 years now.

BILLIE DAVIES trio will be performing the second evolution of their new project "PERSPECTIVES" at Music At The Mint at the The New Orleans Jazz Museum . introducing Allie Porter - vocals  guest/ Ari Kohn - reeds  "PERSPECTIVES", slated to be released somewhere in the first half of 2018 as a digital release, is an all spontaneous improvisation evolving from a foundational line-up of a trio: piano, bass & drums, with guest performers to adding spoken word by female vocalist(s) and finally adding 3 dancers. True improvisational music of an abstract expressionist nature. An improvisation that will evolve through repetition, rehearsal and performance and that will bring a message, from perspectives, to raise the awareness of Life and living, Love and loving in a deeply natural, subconsciously conscious perspective, so people start to listen to their heart again, to feel their soul again, without dogma, without fear, wholly responsible for every action taken, and in ...

DownBeat | Digital Edition | May 2016 BILLIE DAVIES... 'Twenty Years Stronger' Mar 31, 2016 e on LinkedIn Share on Facebook Share on Twitter From  Down Beat   magazine, the monthly "bible" of jazz, blues, and roots music. May 2016 issue.   Article written by Jennifer Odell. Billie Davies, a Belgium-born drummer whose career path has been as avant-gar- de as her music, had an existential crisis of sorts before she returned to drumming full- time in 2009. She’d been working in Northern California as an art dealer—one of many hats that have ranged from DJ to gypsy musician to information architecture IT specialist—when it occurred to her she wasn’t sure who she was anymore. Distraught, she picked up the phone and called Serge Vandercam (1924–2005), a Danish visual artist with whom she’d bonded, for advice. “I just go, ‘Who am I?’” Davies recalled, her voice cracking as if stuck halfway between the onset of laughter or tears. Vandercam’s reply was te...

BILLIE DAVIES New Orleans, LA Jazz / Avant Jazz / Avant Garde PLAY SONGS » SHARE SONGS » VISIT PROFILE » "To Jazz or not to Jazz, there is no question." (Louis Armstrong) It has been a while and a lot has happened... :) Never a dull moment with Billie Davies :) A New Line-up for the BILLIE DAVIES Ensemble  debuted for the performance at Music At The Mint on March 6th where we had a great turn out for a Friday afternoon. L to R: Branden Lewis on trumpet, Evan Oberla on trombone, Alex Blaine on sax, Ed Strohsahl on bass, Billie Davies on drums. Audio and Video of this performance will be available soon. The first 8 songs on Billie Davies' playlist at  http://www.billiedavies.com/  or on  ReverbNation  are by the new BILLIE DAVIES Ensemble and are part of the performance set list for current performances (including the performance at Music At The Mint). The BILLIE DAVIES Ensemble is very busy in the studio now working on t...

Wishing you a very, very Happy New Year 2015 full of Love, Peace and Happiness. ''Doubt that the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun does move, But never doubt I Love You ...'' Love always, Billie Davies ~ A Jazz Musician ~ New Orleans, LA Tel: (+1) 310.467.2061 Email: Billie@BillieDavies.com on the Web: Website: http://www.BillieDavies.com Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Davies Press Kit: http://www.reverbnation.com/rpk/billiedavies Blog: http://BillieDavies.blogspot.com Like her Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/BillieDaviesJazz Fan her on AllAboutJazz: http://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/musician.php?id=43171 Follow her on Twitter: @BillieDavies YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UTN15vKwac&feature=share&list=UU8A-rTV0D0DeDFpqQczycew Buy Billie Davies Music: at CDBaby: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/billiedavies - http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/thebilliedaviestrio on iTunes: ht...

PRESS RELEASE Award Winning, Belgium Born Jazz Drummer Leaves Career in California for a Career in New Orleans! Billie Davies (born Billie Goegebeur, December 10, 1955 in Bruges) is an American female jazz drummer and composer best known for her Avant-garde jazz compositions, as well as her improvisational drumming techniques which she has performed in Europe and in the US since the mid-nineties. Billie and her, recording/producer husband, Mike, moved to New Orleans this last March to achieve her dream of being a New Orleans based musician.  She has been working with local, like-minded sidemen, Shan Kenner on guitar and Pete Olynciw on upright bass to form her New Orleans Ensemble.  They have created a suite of new music entitled  Downman Road. Her 2012 release of  “all about Love”  solidified her position as a professional jazz musician.  This recording of standards and original music, charted #1 in CMJ Jazz College Radio Charts for ‘to...

Billie Davies: 12 Volt (2013) By C. MICHAEL BAILEY , Published: November 22, 2013 Drummer Billie Davies' previous recording, All About Love (Self Produced, 2012) was novel and compelling, a trombone trio with the drummer lead. Davies assembled original and standard works, achieving both educational and artistic endpoints. The present recording, 12 Volt , retains the trio format, substituting the guitar for the trombone and pushes the trio envelope out with a moody collection of eight originals, when considered together comprise an avant-garde suite possibly conceived by Grant Green and John Coltrane . This music is most comparable to Jimmy Giuffre's 1960s trios exploring free jazz using three independent instruments probing jazz's three-dimensional space. Davies directs a very similar interrogation of spatial sound dependence and independent of time. "Collioure" is based on a descending chordal guitar figure, simple and unadorne...

Dr. Will Smith's Playlist: Review (Avant Garde): “12 Volt” - Billie Davies : Review (Avant Garde): “12 Volt” - Billie Davies Billie Davies has an interesting story.   Her travels have led her to many places.   She began her journey in Belgium and grew up singing, writing, and eventually playing drums at the age of 14.   After several awards for her artistic creations, she became a DJ at 23 and played in clubs in Germany and Belgium.   It was at this time she was offered a grant to study at Berklee College of Music under Max Roach after he heard her audition tape.   He felt that she “could learn more fundamental drumming techniques” but he heard “the natural drummer” in her.  She declined the move to the US at that time but became a professional drummer at 25 citing Al Foster, Billy Higgins, Billy Cobham, Jack De Johnette, Ed Thigpen, and Peter Erskine as her biggest influences. After moving to the US at 32 she settled in Los Angeles, Calif...

Press, Reviews and Accolades for avant garde jazz drummer Billie Davies  BILLIE DAVIES is a recipient of the 2013 23rd Annual Los Angeles, California  LA Music Awards "JAZZ ARTIST" Award. 11/14/2013.

Billie Davies Trio: 12 Volt Billie Davies Trio: 12 Volt (2013) By HRAYR ATTARIAN , Published: October 29, 2013 Belgium native and Los Angeles based drummer Billie Davies continues to forge her own path in the improvised music world. Endowed with an explorative temperament and unique, yet definite swing sense, Davies pays homage to Gypsy musicians on her fourth release as a leader, 12 Volt . Just to be clear, this is not an album reinterpreting guitarist Django Reinhardt Django Reinhardt 1910 - 1953 guitar 's tunes or anyone else's for that matter. It is a cohesive work of bold innovation and free flowing spontaneity in tribute to the unfettered spirit of those individuals. The title track, for instance, opens with Davies' thundering cascade of beats that fall like refreshing rain over guitarist Daniel Coffeng 's earthy, slow simmering, chords. Her restless polyrhythms, tempered by the intrica...

BILLIE DAVIES - 12 VOLT Year: 2013 Style : Jazz Label : Cobra Basement Musicians : Billie Davies - drums ; Daniel Coffeng - guitar ; Adam Levy - bass CD Review: On the   first   anniversary of her last CD release: The Billie Davies Trio - All About Love (Cobra Basement: 2012), 'lifelong natural musician' drummer Billie Davies has released another unimpeachable work: BILLIE DAVIES - 12 VOLT . Whereas, All About Love featured some of the music of venerated composers, including Victor Young , Miles Davis , John Coltrane and Mongo Santamaria, 12 VOLT features exclusively original compositions of Billie Davies , revealing yet another formidable creative talent in Davies' impressive artistic arsenal; making this an important CD for Davies, since it adds the crucial tyne of ' composer/arranger'  to her sterling artistic fork, augmenting fearless innovation, and superlative drumming technique. For 12 VOLT , Davies employs again the trio setting, but...