BILLIE DAVIES Ensemble Set 1 at NOLA's L.A.

Happy New Year 2014

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.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2014 !

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BILLIE DAVIES at NOLA's

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,

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 unadorned with brief drum and arco bass support. Guitarist Daniel Coffeng sparsely solos, extending the opening theme. The title piece is a rolicking jam with all instruments hitting their mark. Davies carefully cultivates her cymbals while bassist Adam Levy provides the harmonic roadmap and time over which Coffeng solos most robustly.

"Les Landes" is a good representation of the disc as a whole, an anxious piece with many corners and edges to navigate. Davie's challenge to her bandmates is to glide as smoothly as possible about these corners while she stirs the water with her persistent and restless drumming. The mood is dreamy and slightly soporous, a child of Morpheus and honey, preparing a bed of experiences for the listener.

Track Listing: Collioure; Meeting Manitas; 12 Volt; Les Landes; Tango for Patti; Grapes, Plums and Tomatoes; Gypsy; La Sieste.
Personnel: Billie Davies: drums; Daniel Coffeng: guitar; Adam Levy: bass.
Record Label: Cobra Basement
Style: Beyond Jazz