To Jazz or not to Jazz, there is no question. (Louis Armstrong)

BILLIE DAVIES New Orleans, LA Jazz / Avant Jazz / Avant Garde PLAY SONGS » SHARE SONGS » VISIT PROFILE » "To Jazz or not to Jazz, there is no question." (Louis Armstrong) It has been a while and a lot has happened... :) Never a dull moment with Billie Davies :) A New Line-up for the BILLIE DAVIES Ensemble debuted for the performance at Music At The Mint on March 6th where we had a great turn out for a Friday afternoon. L to R: Branden Lewis on trumpet, Evan Oberla on trombone, Alex Blaine on sax, Ed Strohsahl on bass, Billie Davies on drums. Audio and Video of this performance will be available soon. The first 8 songs on Billie Davies' playlist at http://www.billiedavies.com/ or on ReverbNation are by the new BILLIE DAVIES Ensemble and are part of the performance set list for current performances (including the performance at Music At The Mint). The BILLIE DAVIES Ensemble is very busy in the studio now working on the new album "Hand In Hand In The Hand Of The Moon" (Release date to be determined). The Performance at the Blue Nile Balcony Room for the OPEN EARS music series on Tues May 19th will be introducing the new album "Hand In Hand In The Hand Of The Moon" to the general public. Billie Davies decided to change the line-up for the ensemble after the performance at The Louisiana Music Factory: Click on the photo to hear and see a live video on YouTube of performing "12 Volt". Get the "12 VOLT" CD at Louisiana Music Factory.  The Performance at the Red Bastille Lounge gave us a nice video and a unique perspective: The performance line-up was Billie Davies on drums, Daniel Coffeng on guitar and Stoo Odom on bass (substituting for Jonathan Solomon). Video should very soon be available for your viewing pleasure on YouTube. See Ya Later Gator :-D !!! MUSIC STORES  ITUNES       AMAZON MP3       CD BABY       GOOGLE PLAY      PRESS "Billie Davies: 12 Volt (2013) By C. MICHAEL BAILEY, Published: November 22, 2013 Billie Davies: 12 Volt 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."  C. Michael Bailey, All About Jazz "BILLIE DAVIES - 12 VOLT : HIGH VOLTAGE avant-garde JAZZ by Jan Hocek December 5, 2013 She was born in Bruges, Belgium, eccentric , avant-garde jazz drummer - self-taught, relentless and explosive style of playing, jazz innovator, living in Los Angeles since 2009 only, she is this year's winner of the prestigious LA Music Awards in the category "Jazz Artist of the Year 2013" - BILLIE DAVIES! This award helped her to the greatest degree with her last (the fourth one) album "12 VOLT", which was released on their own label Cobra Basement. Original article language: Czech. For English:http://www.billiedavies.com/Press_12VOLT"  Jan Hocek, JazzPort "She was born in Bruges, Belgium, eccentric , avant-garde jazz drummer - self-taught, relentless and explosive style of playing, jazz innovator, living in Los Angeles since 2009 only, she is this year's winner of the prestigious LA Music Awards in the category "Jazz Artist of the Year 2013" - BILLIE DAVIES! This award helped her to the greatest degree with her last (the fourth one) album "12 VOLT", which was released on their own label Cobra Basement. Billie Davies came to the United States when she was 32. Before that, from the age of 19, she was playing avant-garde jazz and free improvisation throughout Europe, especially France, Spain and the Mediterranean. She learned from recordings that included drummers such as Al Foster, Billy Higgins, Billy Cobham, Peter Erskine, Billy Hart and Jack DeJohnette. In doing so she got herself sucked into the various ethnic influences, particularly Roma music. Original language: Czech - English version:http://www.billiedavies.com/Press_12VOLT.html"  Jan Hocek, his VOICE UPCOMING SHOWS Blue Nile New Orleans, LA Tue May 19 2015 10:00 PM > SEE MORE / DETAILS LINKS  FACEBOOK       YOUTUBE       FACEBOOK       REVERBNATION       ARTIST WEBSITE

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Happy New Year 2015

Wishing you a very, very Happy New Year 2015

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Love always,

Billie Davies
~ A Jazz Musician ~

New Orleans, LA
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BILLIE DAVIES Ensemble Showcase Performance in New Orleans.

BILLIE DAVIES BILLIE DAVIES Ensemble has a Showcase Performance on Aug 21 at 8 pm. Details: Cutting Edge Showcase Performance at Sweet Lorraine's Jazz Club BILLIE DAVIES Ensemble Billie Davies on drums Shan Kenner on guitar Grayson Hackelman on bass Thu, August 21, 8:00pm – 8:45pm Where: Sweet Lorraine's Jazz Club, 1931 St Claude Ave, New Orleans, LA, United States 12 VOLT $9.99 Meeting Manitas (Billie Davies) $0.99   Thu Aug 21 14 New Orleans, LA Sweet Lorraine's Jazz Club   Tue Sep 02 14 New Orleans, LA Blue Nile Tickets   Sat Sep 20 14 New Orleans, LA Louisiana Music Factory Tickets   "Here's what TOM TOM Magazine had to say about BILLIE DAVIES "12 VOLT" .... "The bohemian beatnik drum stylings of Billie Davies reverb from cymbal to kick drum with the intuitive jazzy drifts of a true drumming savant. Her album, 12 Volt, is a showcase of stop and go flow that keeps the listener in some kind of a suspended reality that feels like a faucet of cold tap water jazz that's on the fritz. If your ears are still burnin' from that summer city sun and are in need of a splash of some snare drum love that's sure to sooth your ears, mind, and soul, do yourself the favor and self-medicate with this avant-garde jazz album overflowing with Billie's jive drumming spirit. Listen to this while: smoking your hand rolled cigarettes in some dusky, dimly lit lounge in the Village. Don't forget your gin and tonic, black beret, red lipstick and snapping fingers for applause." — Stephanie Reisnour"  — Stephanie Reisnour, TOM TOM Magazine "She was born in Bruges, Belgium, eccentric , avant-garde jazz drummer - self-taught, relentless and explosive style of playing, jazz innovator, living in Los Angeles since 2009 only, she is this year's winner of the prestigious LA Music Awards in the category "Jazz Artist of the Year 2013" - BILLIE DAVIES! This award helped her to the greatest degree with her last (the fourth one) album "12 VOLT", which was released on their own label Cobra Basement. Billie Davies came to the United States when she was 32. Before that, from the age of 19, she was playing avant-garde jazz and free improvisation throughout Europe, especially France, Spain and the Mediterranean. She learned from recordings that included drummers such as Al Foster, Billy Higgins, Billy Cobham, Peter Erskine, Billy Hart and Jack DeJohnette. In doing so she got herself sucked into the various ethnic influences, particularly Roma music. Original language: Czech - English version: http://www.billiedavies.com/Press_12VOLT.html"  — Jan Hocek, his VOICE "Billie Davies: 12 Volt (2013) By C. MICHAEL BAILEY, Published: November 22, 2013 Billie Davies: 12 Volt 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."  — C. Michael Bailey, All About Jazz

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Award Winning, Belgium Born Jazz Drummer Leaves Career in California for a Career in New Orleans!

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Award Winning, Belgium Born Jazz Drummer Leaves Career in California for a Career in New Orleans!

Billie Davies (born Billie Goegebeur, December 10, 1955 in Bruges) is an American female jazz drummer and composer best known for her Avant-garde jazz compositions, as well as her improvisational drumming techniques which she has performed in Europe and in the US since the mid-nineties.

Billie and her, recording/producer husband, Mike, moved to New Orleans this last March to achieve her dream of being a New Orleans based musician.  She has been working with local, like-minded sidemen, Shan Kenner on guitar and Pete Olynciw on upright bass to form her New Orleans Ensemble.  They have created a suite of new music entitled Downman Road.

Her 2012 release of “all about Love” solidified her position as a professional jazz musician.  This recording of standards and original music, charted #1 in CMJ Jazz College Radio Charts for ‘top jazz add’ in new albums and went on to stay there for 4 weeks.  “all about Love” was also very well received in Canada where the album ended up in the Top 10 on three different! Earshot Jazz charts.

In October, 2013 Billie released “12 VOLT” which also garnered national and international attention. CJ Bond, JAZZ MUSIC (an online jazz journal), wrote the following… “12 VOLT” features exclusively original compositions of Billie Davies, revealing yet another formidable creative talent in Davies' impressive artistic arsenal; making this an important CD for Davies, since it adds the crucial tyne of 'composer/arranger' to her sterling artistic fork, augmenting fearless innovation, and superlative drumming technique as well. 

In September of 2013, Billie Davies was nominated for the top Jazz Artist award from the 23^rd Annual Los Angeles Music Awards; she received the award on November 14.  Five months later she moved to New Orleans and is now ready to present her show to the New Orleans audience.

Her guitar player on “12 VOLT,” Daniel Goffeng, describes Billie as …bringing something radically new to the idiom of modern jazz in various ways which, in its purest essence, incorporates everything in its collective subconscious amalgam that has come before. Billie Davies' music is unapologetically moving in the direction of “true art” and plays with colors, moods, movements, feelings and interactions, a paradoxically more advanced concept of expression...

S. Victor Aaron tells us that "Davies is not countering the modern jazz movement so much but rather stripping it down to its essence. When listening to Davies play, it’s easier to think of her not as a drummer but a tonal painter who swipes brushstrokes with her drumsticks."

l-r: Gary Washington- bass, Billie Davies- drums, Shan Kenner- guitar.

We are looking for any and all opportunities to help promote her New Orleans debut and to officially introduce her to New Orleans’ music scene. 

For more information about Billie Davies, her music, and more reviews, please check her out by   following this link for Billie Davies Website.  To schedule appointments for interviews, please contact Glinda Mantle at 504-453-5533 or via email at glinda.mantle@gmail.com. 

Thank you.

BILLIE DAVIES Ensemble at NOLA's L.A. Set 2 (+playlist)