HER MUSIC IS IT'S OWN ORIGINAL BEAST.

Billie Davies is a drummer and a 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 ... reminding us sometimes of, as Jerome Wilson put it on AAJ, "the spiritual jazz tradition, as exemplified by John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane and Pharaoh Sanders. 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..".

THE FINE ART IN IMPROVISED MUSIC.

“As with several aspects of the playing I was reminded of a wide ranging mix of styles of the Art Ensemble of Chicago. There is total commitment to musical improvisation and, as is also the case with so much of her work, the resulting sound has such unity of purpose that it feels as if all the players must be working from charts rather than spontaneously creating the pieces.” Chris Baber for Jazz Views

HIGHLIGHTS

While living and playing in the South of France in 1984, Billie received a talent grant from Max Roach to study at Berklee College of Music.
Her 2012 release of “all about Love” solidified her position as a professional jazz musician. This recording of standards and original music, charted #1 in CMJ Jazz College Radio Charts for ‘top jazz add’ in new albums and went on to stay in the top 20 for 4 weeks. Also well received in Canada, the album ended up in the Top 10 on three different !Earshot Jazz charts.
In October, 2013 Billie released “12 VOLT” which garnered national and international attention. CJ Bond, JAZZ MUSIC, wrote, “12 VOLT” features exclusively original compositions of Billie Davies, and adds the crucial tyne of 'composer/arranger' to her sterling artistic fork, augmenting fearless innovation. Jan Hocek of His Voice in Prague wrote:”Without hesitation - HIGH VOLTAGE avant-garde JAZZ - one of the most remarkable trio albums of the year!"
In 2013 Billie Davies received the "Jazz Artist of the Year" Award by the 23rd Annual Los Angeles Music Awards.
In March of 2014 she moved to New Orleans where she recorded her album "Hand In Hand In The Hand Of The Moon" in 2015.
She received more national and international attention due to a player feature in Downbeat Magazine May 2016 edition, "BILLIE DAVIES '20 Years Stronger'".
"On Hollywood Boulevard", her CD released on 12/10/2016 became a January 2017 Editor's Pick on DownBeat.com.
December 2017 Billie Davies was nominated for "Best Contemporary Jazz Artist" in New Orleans by OffBeat Magazine's "2017 BEST OF THE BEAT AWARDS".
September 2018 she released "Perspectives II" by Billie Davies trio (Davies, Oberla, Watkinson) with Ari Kohn, Iris P and Allie Porter which was re-released in 2023 as "Perspectives" by Billie Davies.
December 2019 Billie Davies was nominated "Best Drummer" by the "2019 Best Of The Beat Awards" in New Orleans.
In 2020 she released Whadeva (Live at Dangerous Art Studios, New Orleans, LA, 2/13/2020) with Damani Butler and Maude Caillat as covid hit them there after Mardi-Gras.
In 2021 Billie Davies got busy with her music for the 24th century on which she is still working, a study was recorded which she called "Pandemos" with Branden Lewis and Damani Butler.
In 2022 she permanently left New Orleans and moved to the beach in Florida.


WHY WE WANT YOU TO COME BACKSTAGE ...
Become part of the musical adventure that Billie Davies has been on, by letting us give you more incentive as a true music lover. As a backstage member you will get all the info, news, rehearsal and recording session videos, live performance videos and other material beyond the regular album publications. You will also get invitations to special performances to hear and feel the adventure of the BILLIE DAVIES experience first hand... driven by a strong love for exploration and experimentation and purposely steering and staying away from academics and commercially produced products while leaving everything to musical instincts and intuition, the human soul and the fine art of it all.

Thank you for being a part of my Improvisation, of my Art!

Billie Davies