BILLIE DAVIES Music

Tonight (01/19/18) 8pm - 11pm Halfway To The Blood Moon concert under the stars Hosted by Portal The Frenchmen Hotel Rooftop Bar 417 Frenchman Street New Orleans

Billie Davies – ‘On Hollywood Boulevard’ – Skope Entertainment Inc Billie Davies – ‘On Hollywood Boulevard’ by Admin • December 19, 2016 “On Hollywood Boulevard” is a glamorous, gorgeous mixture of jazz and funk displaying Billie Davies’s deft skill. Luxurious textures dominate the collection as Billie Davies draws from a wide variety of sources. Everything simply glistens as the attention to tone and texture are of the utmost importance. Bass works wonders alongside the rather loose, careful rhythms that adorn the album. Mood serves an important function as Billie Davies explore vast terrains, oftentimes delving into surreal, otherworldly soundscapes. Things start off on an impassioned note with the phenomenal opener “On Hollywood Boulevard 1”. With almost a noir take on jazz, the mysterious shadowy nature of the piece results something deeply compelling. Vocals accompany the laid-back attitude of “The Girl In The Window”. Delivered with a sultry sensibility, the way the song b...

On JazzCorner.com News http://www.jazzcorner.com/news/display.php?news=7681 - A Nu Experience! - An Electrifying Musical Adventure - December 10 Release Date! - CD Release party at The Prime Example, New Orleans. Dec. 8th, 2016 - 8 PM - "On Hollywood Boulevard" - - BILLIE DAVIES - Since recording, releasing and performing "Hand In Hand In The Hand Of The Moon" as an ode to the work of her dearest friend, Belgian artist Serge Vandercam (1924 - 2005), and performing with Billie & The Bad Boyzzzz and the Billie Davies Trio in 2015- 2016 it slowly became time for her new album project "On Hollywood Boulevard", for which Billie wrote the melodies and lyrics, to become a reality. After 20 years of playing, producing and releasing instrumental jazz, Billie Davies is turning a page and is bringing us a Nu Vocal and Electric Experience, "On Hollywood Boulevard". "On Hollywood Boulevard" was born while Billi...

BILLIE DAVIES - A Nu Experience In the recording studio... Recording the new album "On Hollywood Boulevard" Hollywood Boulevard (Billie Davies) L to R: Evan Oberla - piano/synth/trombone Billie Davies - drums Oliver Watkinson - bass Iris P - vocals Mike Davies - sound & video Recorded at Billie Davies studio - Cobra Basement

BILLIE DAVIES - A Nu Experience In the recording studio... Recording the new album "On Hollywood Boulevard" Palm Trees (Billie Davies) L to R: Evan Oberla - piano/synth/trombone Billie Davies - drums Oliver Watkinson - bass Iris P - vocals Mike Davies - sound & video Recorded at Billie Davies studio - Cobra Basement

BILLIE DAVIES - A Nu Experience In the recording studio... Recording the new album "On Hollywood Boulevard" Jacaranda 2 (Billie Davies) L to R: Evan Oberla - piano/synth/trombone Billie Davies - drums Oliver Watkinson - bass Iris P - vocals Mike Davies - sound & video Recorded at Billie Davies studio - Cobra Basement

Billie Davies Projects: BILLIE DAVIES trio and BILLIE & The Bad Boyzzzz, New Orleans. BILLIE DAVIES trio BILLIE & The Bad Boyzzzz

Free MP3 at All About Jazz: “v. The Shark In The Hand” by Billie Davies From The Album Hand In Hand In The Hand Of The Moon By  Billie Davies

'Hand In Hand In The Hand Of The Moon' - Drummer Billie Davies With Art Inspired By Music, Music Inspired By Art!

MEDIA:   Billie Davies Hand In The Hand OneSheet  |  About Hand In Hand In The Hand Of The Moon  |  The Paintings  |  Project Photos HAND IN HAND IN THE HAND OF THE MOON BILLIE DAVIES An homage to Serge Vandercam (Copenhagen, Denmark, 1924 - Wavre, Belgium, March 10, 2005). A symphony inspired by paintings by Serge Vandercam and drums by Billie Davies (Brugge, Belgium, 1955). The painter influenced by the drummer and the drummer influenced by the painter over a period of three days of the full moon. A collaborative work, conceived in 1995 resulting 20 years later in a series of 8 paintings and a jazz symphony of 8 musical movements. "You would have loved where I was at, Serge, between the Rocks, the Dirt, the Coyotes, the Eagles, the Mountain Lions, the Road Runners, the Rattle Snakes. You would have loved where I am at, Serge, in the heat of New Orleans with the Banana trees, the Gators, the Water Moccasins, the Egrets, the Hawks, the Pe...

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 Hi , YES! Billie let her hair be long again...!!! She finds herself more beautiful to look at in the mirror. She likes herself that way so much better. And she hopes that you will too... To end the year 2013 the BILLIE DAVIES Ensemble, with Daniel Coffeng on guitar and Jacob Bartfield on upright bass, had a wonderful performance at NOLA's in downtown Los Angeles. Videos of this performance will be released soon... BILLIE DAVIES received the 2013 23rd Annual LAMA "JAZZ ARTIST" Award on 11/14/2013 at the AVALON in Hollywood. "12 VOLT" A NEW CD release by Jazz and Avant Garde drummer BILLIE DAVIES. "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 Love & Peace, Billie Davies.

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.

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...

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...