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"Like the best forward-thinking music, Billie Davies' work reminds you of many different things but in the end, it is its own original beast, as powerful as anything more well-known musicians have created this year.” - Jerome Wilson, All About Jazz (Dec 17, 2018)
Billie Davies is an American drummer and composer best known for her free, instinctively avant-garde compositions since the mid nineties, and her improvisational drumming techniques she has performed in Europe and in the US. All of her music is improvisational ... a conversation between musicians and musical instruments, a joint emotional expression inspired by a certain feeling, thought or perspective that is being communicated to an audience, a listener, a community.
"I want to play as if I never played my instrument before, as if every time is the first time and I want to end up with music that is not written down but is felt and expressed at that moment of playing, of recording, of performing. This deliberate moment of choices, chances and inspirations may become a specific type of music, but it never ends up being predetermined or planned music, the notes played are never written down. I just want to end up with something where I hear unexpected, emotional, passionate, challenging music never heard before." Billie Davies.
Retrospectives (In The Key Of Jazz)
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Hollywood Boulevard From The Window; Do Do Kindje Doo; Sunraaah; Melancholia Abstractissimus; Improvisationality;
An Improvisation; An Improvisation Too; Art;
Exciting New Free Improvisation Album Release By Billie Davies
A new album release by drummer Billie Davies, Retrospectives (In The Key Of Jazz). A retrospective of never before released music created during a 6 year period, 82 minutes of Free Improvisation, Beyond Jazz, Avant-garde in the key of Jazz music. To be released and distributed thanks to ReverbNation and Bandcamp on April 20, 2025. All ...
On Hollywood Boulevard - Live at The Mint in New Orleans
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: The Girl in the Window; Jacaranda; Yellow Sunshine; Palm Trees; Hollywood Boulevard; On
Hollywood Boulevard.
The Musical Evolution of Billie Davies
by La-Faithia White
Drummer Billie Davies' journey began in the north of Europe in coastal Belgium where she was born and raised. Davies was involved with two bands while living in Holland, in Terneuzen, a semi coastal port town. One band scored a lot of gigs with festivals and parties versus the other, who only played a few times ...
A New Live Digital Album Release By Drummer Billie Davies
A New Digital Album Release by Billie Davies. On Hollywood Boulevard—Live at The Mint in New Orleans To be released through ReverbNation and Bandcamp on August 8, 2024. About On Hollywood Boulevard On Hollywood Boulevard came about while Billie Davies still lived at The Historic Hillview in Hollywood, Los Angeles. She lived there for ...
Drummer, Composer Billie Davies Has Left New Orleans
After spending eight years in New Orleans and recording three albums as a leader, Billie Davies has made a permanent move to West Palm Beach, Florida. She decided it was time to return to her favorite environment in the world—the beaches at the Atlantic Ocean—in her preferred sub-tropical climate. In her words: “There is a time ...
A Different Drummer, Part 5: Terri Lyne Carrington
by Karl Ackermann
In her 2003 Carnegie Mellon University paper Experience West African Drumming: A Study of West African Dance-Drumming and Women Drummers, Leslie Marie Mullins explains that drumming was explicitly the territory of male musicians in West Africa. Mullins reveals that several myths were employed to keep women and drums far apart. Among them, Ghanaian women were thought ...
Whadeva (Live at Dangerous Art Studios February 13, 2020)
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Whadeva the Cobra; Whadeva 2; Whadeva 3;
Whadeva 4; Whadeva 5; Whadeva 6.
Whadeva 3
Album: Whadeva (Live at Dangerous Art Studios February 13, 2020)
By Billie Davies
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
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