Happy New Year from Billie Davies.

Wishing you Happy Holidays from the Universe...

Billie Davies
~ A Jazz Musician, Model and Muse ~

Hollywood, CA 90028
Email: Billie@BillieDavies.com
Web:
Her website: http://www.BillieDavies.com
Her blog: http://BillieDavies.blogspot.com
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Billie Davies, UP-Dates on new album/CD: "Coming Soon... all about Love."
Going back in time, find some wonderful songs, a few that lend itself to a female voice, and give them a contemporary/improvisational twist
It gives her the greatest pleasure, fills her with joy, to be able to bring back these particular songs with a new contemporary perspective to a new audience.

Album Title: "Coming Soon... all about Love".

Just about definitive Songlist:
Love Part 1: Fun
1. My Heart Belongs to Daddy (w/ guest vocalist CoCo)
2. Fever (w/ guest vocalist CoCo)
3. L.O.V.E (w/ guest vocalist Halina Duval)
4. Love Me or Leave Me (w/ guest vocalist Halina Duval)
5. Street Life
Love Part 2: Passion
6. A Love Supreme
7. Stella by Starlight
8. Naima
9. So What
10. What a Wonderful World

Musicians:
On Guitar: Daniel Coffeng
On Bass: (Auditioning this week...)
On Piano/Keys: Maria Konner
On Trombone: Tom B. Ralls II (Tom Bone)
On Drums: Billie Davies
Sound Technician/Engineer: Mike Davies

(Billie Davies is looking for Sponsorship/Support to release her new Album, "Coming Soon... all about Love", for more specific details please click the following link... Production, Publishing, Licensing and general Release costs.)

Day Dreaming

Day Dreaming…

He makes me live in a little abandoned house
Deep into the warm woods
On a sunny beach with the ocean as my father
And with dirty windows

I was all cheek and he was all lips.
We were meant to understand each other well,
Four lips soldered together only let the world go by.
My face is lost.

Yes, a joy in pain.
My body is not meant to be.
It dies from life.

He dreamed of so many different girls
And I was all of them.
I was her.
I was us.

He kissed me everywhere
He put kisses on the sun.
I was everything, even what is good.

Day dreams…

Call out to EXPERIENCED, CREATIVE, IMPROVISATIONAL Free Improvisation Cats

Billie Davies Trio is calling out to EXPERIENCED, CREATIVE, FREE IMPROVISATIONAL Jazz Cats in New Orleans

All of Billie Davies music is improvisational... a conversation between musicians and musical instruments, a joint emotional expression inspired by a certain common feeling, thought or perspective that is being communicated to an audience, a listener, a community.

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LOOKING FOR EXPERIENCED, IMPROVISATIONAL CATS

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Whether you consider yourself advanced or expert... you need to love and have a yearning for interacting and growing with the same musicians continuously for an indefinite amount of time of playing, recording, gigging ...

INFLUENCES
All of her music is improvisational... a conversation between musicians and musical instruments, a joint emotional expression inspired by a certain common feeling, thought or perspective that is being communicated to an audience, a listener, a community.
Most of her influences stem from Classical, Gypsy, Manouche, Blues, Jazz, Free Jazz, Avant-jazz, Avant-garde, Soul and Funk.
Major influences: Jack De Johnette, Billy Higgins, Billy Hart, Al Foster, Ed Thigpen, Billy Cobham... Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
Important influences: Max Roach, Elvin Jones, Tony Williams... Music produced under The ECM label in the 70's/80's with artists such as Dollar Brand,Abdulah Ibrahim, Jan Garbarek, John Abercrombie, Terje Rypdal, Charles Lloyd became an important influence and her inspirations have been influenced by Carla Bley, Nina Simone, Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday, Chopin, Ravel, Serge Vandercam, Matisse, Manitas de Plata, Irene Papas, Vangelis, Paco De Lucia, John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola, Trilok Gurtu, Klaus Schulze, Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Charles Aznavour, Jacques Brel, Mozart, Bach, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mussorgsky, Christian Dotremont, the CoBrA movement, Bram Bogart, Hugo Claus, Gaudi, Braque, Van Gogh, Picasso, Dali, Miro, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and so many more... and ~~~ Universal Energy ~~~.

“LOUD AND CLEAR
What Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins accomplished in “The Shape of Jazz to Come” was not in vain, I heard it!!!... What Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sun Ra and Cecil Taylor left us was not in vain, I heard it!!!...

LOUD AND CLEAR

It was their roots, It is my roots, answering, calling, and continuing the Mission of the evolution of Fine ART in JAZZ, in MUSIC, of liberating the notes to be free and the sounds to be re-invented, re-explored, so that others will hear and see and feel the ROOTS.
So that others may IDENTIFY with it. As I Do.
So that this extremely FREE, Heart Beating, Soul Searching, Mind Bending form of FINE ART through the medium of MUSIC... be still here
after I am gone...
UNCONSTRAINED by color, race, gender, dogma, politics, fashion and trends and money.

LOUD AND CLEAR” (Billie Davies)

Free jazz is an approach to jazz that developed in the 1960s when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventions, such as regular tempos, tones, and chord changes. Musicians during this period believed that the bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz that had been played before them was too limiting. They became preoccupied with creating something new. Free jazz has often been combined with or substituted for the term "avant-garde jazz". Europeans tend to favor the term "free improvisation". Others have used "modern jazz", "creative music", and "art music".

The ambiguity of free jazz presents problems of definition. Although it is usually played by small groups or individuals, free jazz big bands have existed. Although musicians and critics claim it is innovative and forward looking, it draws on early styles of jazz and has been described as an attempt to return to primitive, often religious, roots. Although jazz is an American invention, free jazz musicians drew heavily from world music and ethnic music traditions from around the world. Sometimes they played foreign instruments, unusual instruments, or invented their own. They emphasized emotional intensity and sound for its own sake. (Wikipedia)

Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz) is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. Avant-jazz often sounds very similar to free jazz, but differs in that, despite its distinct departure from traditional harmony, it has a predetermined structure over which improvisation may take place. This structure may be composed note for note in advance, partially or even completely. The origins of avant-garde jazz are in the innovations of the immediate stylistic successors of Charlie Parker. Musicians such as Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane introduced modal improvisation and experimented with atonality and dissonance. Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, and Ornette Coleman became controversial jazz innovators. (Wikipedia)