BILLIE DAVIES received the 2013 23rd Annual LAMA "JAZZ ARTIST" Award on
11/14/2013 at the AVALON in
Hollywood.
Thank you LA Music Awards and Al Bowman, for making this happen. Thank you Mike Davies, for all your relentless support, thank you Daniel Coffeng and Adam Levy for the music, thank you Mom for bringing all that Jazz into my childhood, and a big thank you to all my family, dear friends, supporters and fans in this world, I am a proud and happy recipient of the 23rd LA Music Awards "Jazz Artist" award.
Thank you LA Music Awards and Al Bowman, for making this happen. Thank you Mike Davies, for all your relentless support, thank you Daniel Coffeng and Adam Levy for the music, thank you Mom for bringing all that Jazz into my childhood, and a big thank you to all my family, dear friends, supporters and fans in this world, I am a proud and happy recipient of the 23rd LA Music Awards "Jazz Artist" award.
"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
Physical CD's & Download CD's and Single Songs are available for sale at:
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Billie
Davies: http://www.billiedavies.com/
or you can contact Billie Davies at http://www.billiedavies.com/
REVIEWS:
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's tunes or anyone else's for that matter. Hrayr Attarian, All About Jazz.
The 23rd Annual L.A. Music Awards has recently nominated drummer and bandleader Davies as “Jazz Artist of the Year” for 2013, a mere four years after she set up shop in Los Angeles and made it her home. But this bohemian from Belgium has quickly made positive impressions everywhere she goes, including this reviewer when sizing up her third album "all about Love" a year ago.
For album #4 "12 VOLT", Davies assembled a new trio to go along with her new songs, in which she constructed around a concept of simplicity and being closer to nature. In this case, being closer to nature meant deconstructing jazz to its base components. The liner notes for Billie Davies’ upcoming album went into the detail of what makes the jazz of this drummer stand out from the herd, but one sentence seemed to sum it up nicely: “Davies is not countering the modern jazz movement so much but rather stripping it down to its essence.”
S Victor Aaron, Something Else!
or you can contact Billie Davies at http://www.billiedavies.com/
REVIEWS:
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's tunes or anyone else's for that matter. Hrayr Attarian, All About Jazz.
The 23rd Annual L.A. Music Awards has recently nominated drummer and bandleader Davies as “Jazz Artist of the Year” for 2013, a mere four years after she set up shop in Los Angeles and made it her home. But this bohemian from Belgium has quickly made positive impressions everywhere she goes, including this reviewer when sizing up her third album "all about Love" a year ago.
For album #4 "12 VOLT", Davies assembled a new trio to go along with her new songs, in which she constructed around a concept of simplicity and being closer to nature. In this case, being closer to nature meant deconstructing jazz to its base components. The liner notes for Billie Davies’ upcoming album went into the detail of what makes the jazz of this drummer stand out from the herd, but one sentence seemed to sum it up nicely: “Davies is not countering the modern jazz movement so much but rather stripping it down to its essence.”
S Victor Aaron, Something Else!
On the first
anniversary of her last CD release: The Billie Davies Trio -
all about Love (Cobra Basement: 2012), 'lifelong natural
musician' drummer Billie Davies has released another
unimpeachable work: BILLIE DAVIES - 12 VOLT. Whereas, all
about Love featured some of the music of venerated composers,
including Victor Young, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Mongo
Santamaria, 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.
CJ Bond, JAZZ MUSIC
CJ Bond, JAZZ MUSIC
Love
& Peace,
Billie
Davies.
