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Happy New Year 2014

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

Press, Reviews and Accolades for avant garde jazz drummer Billie Davies

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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: 12 VOLT

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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...