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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...

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'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...