Well, here is another update...
Jacob Joon somehow could not make our cut either a week or so into it to both Daniel and my surprise, so we went on a search for another "different" bass player and, so I am very happy to announce that we actually have found, coming out of the blue..., the perfect Bass for this music in ADAM LEVY.
THE VERY FINAL LINE-UP FOR THE BILLIE DAVIES BAND.
Billie Davies- drums
Daniel Coffeng- guitar
Adam Levy- bass
... this time I know we have found each other. My calling has been answered, and the answer came in the shape of Billie Davies- Drums, from Brugge, Daniel Coffeng- Guitar, from Amsterdam, Adam Levy- Bass, from Tampa.
Daniel and I came to the US in search of the roots of Jazz, following a calling, something we could not find somehow in Europe. We felt an energy driving us here and we had somehow no choice but to follow it, and maybe that energy has now manifested itself and completed its purpose, as both of us found ourselves here in L.A. and found each other actually feeling good, happy, constructive, renewed, reborn through our music as we started playing together.
Daniel and I communicate so well together and Adam joined that communication easily and definitely comes up with a nice and solid bass sound for our music... So, here we are, closer then ever before to the music we love to play so so so much... a dream come true.. and so much more to learn.
Ad to that the affinities of my husband, Mike Davies in recording and sound technology and we have the perfect team to complete our message in this life, after all Daniel and I had heard that message way back in Europe...
“LOUD AND CLEAR”
What Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins
accomplished in “The Shape of Jazz to Come” was not in vain, I and others heard
it!!!
“LOUD AND CLEAR”
It was their roots, It is our roots, answering, calling, and continuing the
Mission of Art in Jazz, Art in Music, of liberating the notes to be free and the sounds to be
re-invented, re-explored, so that others will hear and see and may feel the
ROOTS!!
So that others may IDENTIFY with it. As We Did.
So that this extremely FREE, Heart Beating, Soul Searching, Mind Bending
form of FINE ART through the medium of MUSIC... be still here
after WE are gone...
UNCONSTRAINED by DOGMA, POLITICS, FASHION, TRENDS, aND mONEY.
“LOUD AND CLEAR”
