BILLIE DAVIES Music

  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 , 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 unadorne...

Dr. Will Smith's Playlist: Review (Avant Garde): “12 Volt” - Billie Davies : Review (Avant Garde): “12 Volt” - Billie Davies Billie Davies has an interesting story.   Her travels have led her to many places.   She began her journey in Belgium and grew up singing, writing, and eventually playing drums at the age of 14.   After several awards for her artistic creations, she became a DJ at 23 and played in clubs in Germany and Belgium.   It was at this time she was offered a grant to study at Berklee College of Music under Max Roach after he heard her audition tape.   He felt that she “could learn more fundamental drumming techniques” but he heard “the natural drummer” in her.  She declined the move to the US at that time but became a professional drummer at 25 citing Al Foster, Billy Higgins, Billy Cobham, Jack De Johnette, Ed Thigpen, and Peter Erskine as her biggest influences. After moving to the US at 32 she settled in Los Angeles, Calif...

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.

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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...

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