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Billie Davies Trio with Steve Masakowski, "Improvisations", SideBar Nola

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Billie Davies Trio (Davies, Oberla, Watkinson) with Steve Masakowski at SideBar Nola, March 29, 2019 at 9 PM.

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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...
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 Wishing all y'all a very happy, peaceful and full of love New Year 2019.  

Billie Davies Trio: Perspectives II By Jerome Wilson

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Billie Davies Trio: Perspectives II By JEROME WILSON December 17, 2018 The spiritual jazz tradition, as exemplified by John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, has been having a resurgence over the past few years in places like Los Angeles and Great Britain. Now here is evidence that some musicians in New Orleans are going down that path as well. Billie Davies is a drummer from Belgium who now lives and works in the Big Easy and this recording, available only in download form, captures a live performance of her trio, plus added guests, creating over an hour of heady, uplifting music. Most tracks build slowly. "Nature" starts with lonely flute trills by Ari Kohn and sparse electric piano notes from Evan Oberla that slowly coalesce into a wavy tropical rhythm. Craggy, harp-like piano and the soothing voices of Allie Porter and Iris P weave in and out of each other while Davies and bassist Oliver Watkinson maintain a light, rolling undercurrent that keeps the musi...

Billie Davies Perspectives ~ A Gathering - A 3 month residency at the Art Klub in New Orleans.

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BILLIE DAVIES Trio presents PERSPECTIVES ~ a Gathering Billie Davies Perspectives ~ A Gathering  Who: Billie Davies Trio What: Billie Davies Perspectives ~ A Gathering When: Every Sunday, 8:00pm-11:00pm Starting: OCTOBER 21, 2018 Ending: JANUARY 13, 2019 Where: Art Klub, 1941 Arts St., New Orleans Why: Billie Davies Perspectives ~ A Gathering is a once a week open to the public music exploration during her 3 month residency at the Art Klub, within the perspective of "fine art" - while at the same time it being an informal, happy-go-lucky, relaxing musical gathering full of love and peace. How Much: $10 at the door. No one is ever turned away for lack of funds at Art Klub. Billie Davies Perspectives ~ A Gathering Every Sunday, from October 21 until January 13, join the BILLIE DAVIES Trio as they explore music within a perspective of "fine art". Each Sunday night will showcase Billie Davies on drums, Evan Oberla on pi...

BILLIE DAVIES trio, "PERSPECTIVES II", now available on BandCamp.

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Billie Davies trio "PERSPECTIVES II" Now Available On BandCamp

#newmusic #billiedaviestrio "PERSPECTIVES II" Now available @Bandcamp https://lnkd.in/eVpExbi . Also available on @ReverbNation . Listen on @AllAboutJazz @AppleMusic @Spotify @iTunes #jazzimprovisation #music @InTheKeyOfJazz