BILLIE DAVIES Music

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: 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...

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...

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...