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BILLIE DAVIES at NOLA's BILLIE DAVIES Ensemble http:// www.billiedavies.com/ BillieDavies_Ensembles.html Billie Davies : drums. Daniel Coffeng : guitar. Will Mack : bass. Performance at: Nola's - A Taste of New Orleans Doors open at 5 pm Performance Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00pm Address: 734 E. 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013 Neighborhood: Downtown L.A. Full Details: http://nolasla.com/ billie-davies-group/

  Billie Davies walking the red carpet of the 23rd Annual LA Music Awards with Mike Davies  to receive the 2013 "Jazz Artist" award.

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.

JazzWorldQuest - Jazz News With A Global Perspective: "12 VOLT", a new CD release by Jazz and Avant Gard... : "12 VOLT", a new CD release by Jazz and Avant Garde drummer BILLIE DAVIES. The organic essence of improvisational music. The e...

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...

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Jazz , Uncategorized — October 2, 2013 at 9:00 am Billie Davies – 12 Volt (2013) by S. Victor Aaron The 23rd Annual L.A. Music Awards has recently nominated drummer and bandleader Davies as “Jazz Artist of the Year” for 2013, a mere four years after she set up shop in Los Angeles and made it her home. But this bohemian from Belgium has quickly made positive impressions everywhere she goes, including this reviewer when sizing up her third album all about Love a year ago . For album #4 12 Volt , Davies assembled a new trio to go along with her new songs, in which she constructed around a concept of simplicity and being closer to nature. In this case, being closer to nature meant deconstructing jazz to its base components. The liner notes for Billie Davies’ upcoming album went into the detail of what makes the jazz of this drummer stand out from the herd, but one sentence seemed to sum it up nicely: “Davies is not countering the modern jazz movement so mu...

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...

Billie Davies Nominated Jazz Artist of the Year by LAMA, the 23rd Annual L.A. Music Awards - PR.com

The first review of "12 VOLT", the new album by BILLIE DAVIES is in. Read all about it... Bop-N-Jazz: Billie Davies 12 Volt 2013 : The organic essence of improvisational music. The evocative manipulation of sound and silence into a living breathing microcosm of emotion and spontaneous creativity. Brent Black / www.bop-n-jazz.com Melodic minimalism...12 Volt is improvisational music stripped down to a bare bones approach of lyrical passion and purpose. Billie Davies is more than a drummer as she possesses compositional skills that have 12 Volt as engaging as perhaps any trio based ensemble working today. Perhaps the most amazing aspect of 12 Volt is that it is a live studio recording. Live studio recordings can be magic or they can be a train wreck. Strictly as an instrumentalist Billie Davies is one of the more lyrically based drummers in the style of a Max Roach and her work is quickly gaining attention as she was nominated as "Jazz Artist" of...

Billie and Mike Davies are very excited to let you know that... The 23rd Annual Los Angeles Music Awards has nominated BILLIE DAVIES as "JAZZ ARTIST OF THE YEAR" for 2013. !!! VOTE BILLIE DAVIES JAZZ ARTIST OF THE YEAR !!! 1. Online: On-line voting system at 99 cents per vote, you can buy however many votes you want... http://www.lamusicawards.net/nominees.html .   2. Paper Ballot Voting: Thursday, September 26th, 2013 Event: The 23 rd Annual Los Angeles Music Awards Nominee Night Press Event Date: Thursday, September 26th, 2013 Venue: The Whisky A Go-Go : 8901 Sunset Bl. West Hollywood Doors Open : 6:30 pm Panel Discussion: 7:10 to 7:40 Sound bytes for Voting Process Begins @ : 7:45 Performers: 10 sponsored musical acts. Media Coverage: Liz at emrmedia.com has confirmed well over a dozen members of the international press will be covering your appearance at this event. These include press photo ag...

Female Jazz drummer BILLIE DAVIES. A 2013 Los Angeles Music Awards Nominee, Jazz Artist of The Year. The 23rd Annual L.A. MUSIC AWARDS has nominated BILLIE DAVIES as "JAZZ ARTIST OF THE YEAR" for 2013. Vote BILLIE DAVIES as Jazz Artist Of The Year! http://www.lamusicawards.net/nominees.html

Working hard on the re-recording and finalizing "12 VOLT"   in Los Angeles.  The "12 VOLT" Recording has been re-scheduled.  Billie Davies schedule: Working on New CD "12 VOLT." - Avant-Jazz Spirit Coming Soon.

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Due to unforeseen circumstances I felt unable to release & publish the most recent "12 VOLT" recording at Bedrock.LA. Please bare with me as we are continuing forward towards the "12 VOLT" album recording, release and publication. In the meantime, let me introduce you to ~ 12 VOLT ~ (Promotional Version), you should be hearing it when you read this... :) A version that serves as a true introduction to The Billie Davies Band's music and serves as a proof of concept for what's to come on the next album "12 VOLT" Love, Billie Davies Billie Davies @ All About Jazz

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The Billie Davies Band ~ Photos ~ Recording 12 VOLT.  Photos of Billie Davies & The Billie Davies Band "12 VOLT" recording session at Bedrock LA  !~ Have Been Posted ~! BillieDavies.com The Billie Davies Band ~ Photos ~ Recording 12 VOLT.  Photos of Billie Davies & The Billie Davies Band "12 VOLT" recording session at Bedrock LA  !~ Have Been Posted ~! BillieDavies.com

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Billie Davies & The Billie Davies Band: About The Music. The Billie Davies Band is bringing something radically new to the idiom of modern jazz in various ways which, in its purest essence, incorporates everything in its collective subconscious amalgam that has come before. It draws influences and ideas from both classical music and jazz in a modern and unique way which would appeal to audiences and aficionados of both these types of music. Besides these two major exponents it also encompasses what’s referred to as “world music” (Indian, African, Middle Eastern, Asian, South American and European ethnic music) As with most jazz and classical music, every new style or period is a clear, direct reaction against the movement which has come before and often draws from a period prior to the movement it rebels against. Contemporary jazz has taken the form of extreme dense harmonic development, parallel chord movements, very advanced rhythms, odd meters and an ...

Jazz. Female Jazz drummer Billie Davies & The Billie Davies Band. all that jazz. Will be offline for a while as we are getting ready for the recording of 12 VOLT on Monday, April 22 at Bedrock L.A. Studios... C U after... Love, Billie G Davies

  Billie Davies & The Billie Davies Band Updates: Well, well, as it often seems to happen... Due to our guitar player turning sick we have had to reschedule our recording date to: MONDAY APRIL 22, 2013.   1. We have signed the contracts and will be added to the Jazz Roster of Price Rubin & Partners Management in about a month ~ http://www.PriceRubin.com/ 2. With a new look and new music we have completely revamped the website with lots of new current photos ~ http://www.BillieDavies.com/ - http://www.BillieDavies.com/Media.html - http://www.BillieDavies.com/TheBillieDaviesBand.html/ 3. We are going in the RECORDING studio on APRIL 22, 2013 to record the new album "12 VOLT" at Bedrock L.A. studios in Echo Park ~ Stay tuned... http://www.billiedavies.com/Music.html – There will be a Pro Photo Shoot with Inez Lewis and... other Photographers and Videographers are always welcome to surprise us! ... ~~~ We might ...