BILLIE DAVIES Music

Billie Davies Trio (Davies, Oberla, Watkinson) with Steve Masakowski at SideBar Nola, March 29, 2019 at 9 PM. Billie Davies Trio (Davies, Oberla, Watkinson) will be playing with Steve Masakowski at SideBar NOLA in New Orleans on Friday March 29, 2019 at 9PM. Energies coming together to create something that has never been created before and will never be created again.  A spontaneous expression, a harmony achieved that speaks for the existence of a universal energy that moves us all, no matter what perspective. Billie Davies is an American jazz drummer and composer best known for her free and avant-garde jazz compositions since the mid-1990s, and her improvisational drumming techniques. She is a very accomplished free-jazz drummer. Born in Belgium, she now lives in New Orleans, having spent much of her life living peripatetically. The music of Billie Davies Trio and her other line-ups, moves on from the Jazz and Avant-garde world beyond Jazz with it's own very unique...

"New Orleans Drummer Billie Davies Announces Her New Release, "Perspectives II" By Billie Davies Trio, For September 27, 2018" SOURCE: BILLIE DAVIES PR September 12, 2018 1,677 Views "Freedom and expression. These are the things that matter most to Billie Davies, who has used the drums as a means to express herself freely for more than 40 years now." —Noe Cugny, Offbeat Magazine. About Perspectives II“All of my music is improvisational... a conversation between musicians and musical instruments. A joint emotional expression inspired by a certain common feeling, thought or perspective in an instinctual, unpredictable, freely expressed improvisation exploring authentic feelings and inspirations that is being communicated to an audience, a listener, a community."—Billie Davies Perspectives II is an all spontaneous, instinctive, intuitive improvisation inspired by 7 perspectives, words and seven chakra musical keys, expressed by a quartet of ...

Billie Davies announces her "PERSPECTIVES" project finale, “PERSPECTIVES II” Performance BILLIE DAVIES trio Billie Davies,  drums Evan Oberla,  piano/keys Oliver Watkinson,  bass Featuring Ari Kohn,  reeds Iris P,  vocals Allie Porter,  vocals Artivism Dance Theatre,  dance improvisation venue Art Klub Theater, 1941 Arts Street, New Orleans LA 70117 June 1, 2018 - 8 pm tickets Door:  $18 general admission $15 for artists seniors students teachers Online:  https://perspectives2.eventbrite.com/   http://artklub.org/calendar/2018/6/1/perspectives-ii-billie-davies The live performance will be recorded live for sound and video and will be produced as a digital only album (music) and streaming video/DVD (music/video) and is slated to be released in the fall of 2018. Following the improvisational exploration of “PERSPECTIVES I” ( https://youtu.be/Ub06p6NTV3A ), performed at the New Orleans Jazz Museum, Music At The Mint, on Janu...

BILLIE DAVIES trio will be performing the second evolution of their new project "PERSPECTIVES" at Music At The Mint at the The New Orleans Jazz Museum . introducing Allie Porter - vocals  guest/ Ari Kohn - reeds  "PERSPECTIVES", slated to be released somewhere in the first half of 2018 as a digital release, is an all spontaneous improvisation evolving from a foundational line-up of a trio: piano, bass & drums, with guest performers to adding spoken word by female vocalist(s) and finally adding 3 dancers. True improvisational music of an abstract expressionist nature. An improvisation that will evolve through repetition, rehearsal and performance and that will bring a message, from perspectives, to raise the awareness of Life and living, Love and loving in a deeply natural, subconsciously conscious perspective, so people start to listen to their heart again, to feel their soul again, without dogma, without fear, wholly responsible for every action taken, and in ...

Billie Davies - A Nu Experience at Music At The Mint, May 19 : Billie Davies - A Nu Experience at Music At The Mint, May 19. Musicians: Billie Davies, Evan Oberla, Oliver Watkinson, Iris Poree, - order tickets, find location and other info. Never miss another jazz concert in New Orleans again!

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

"In The Key Of Jazz" (Set 2). Billie Davies & The Bad Boyzzzz Tuesday May 03, 2016 @ Open Ears Music Series Blue Nile Balcony Room Frenchmen Street, New Orleans. Ari Kohn reeds, Billie Davies drums, Branden Lewis trumpet, Oliver Watkinson bass, Evan Oberla trombone. Video & Sound: Mike Davies.

"In The Key Of Jazz" (Set 1). Billie Davies & The Bad Boyzzzz Tuesday May 03, 2016 @ Open Ears Music Series Blue Nile Balcony Room Frenchmen Street, New Orleans. Ari Kohn reeds, Billie Davies drums, Branden Lewis trumpet, Oliver Watkinson bass, Evan Oberla trombone. Video & Sound: Mike Davies.

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...