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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
Label: Cobra Basement
Released: 2020
Track listing: Whadeva the Cobra; Whadeva 2; Whadeva 3;
Whadeva 4; Whadeva 5; Whadeva 6.
Whadeva 3
Album: Whadeva Live
By Billie Davies
Label: Cobra Basement
Released: 2020
Duration: 07:05
Billie Davies: Whadeva (Live at Dangerous Art Studios February 13, 2020)
by Geno Thackara
When you think of the music of New Orleans, chances are you're not imagining anything like Whadeva--semi-avant-garde improvisation with light electronics is hardly the first association that comes to anyone's mind. Nonetheless the Big Easy's personality is still clear through this freewheeling EP, which was knocked out in a Ninth Ward studio in one free-spirited day. ...
Perspectives (Live at the Art Klub in New Orleans)
Label: Cobra Basement
Released: 2018
Track listing: Nature (Live); Life (Live); Happiness (Live); Love (Live); Freedom (Live); Art (Live); Rhythm (Live).
Billie Davies Trio: Perspectives II
by Jerome Wilson
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 ...
Trios and Quartets In Abundance
by Maurice Hogue
This episode is dominated by trios and quartets. Making her One Man's Jazz debut is English saxophonist Josephine Davies and her trio Satori with a pair of tracks from In the Corner of Clouds, while bassist Michael Formanek, no stranger to this show, debuts a new quartet with Kris Davis, Ches Smith and Tony Malaby. His ...
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