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| Rhythm is everything pertaining to the segmented duration of energy.
The drummer deals almost exclusively with rhythm, therefore he/she is an architect of energy.
Art is not eternal, only energy is eternal. |
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 All of her music is improvisational... a conversation between musicians and musical instruments, a joint emotional expression inspired by a certain common feeling, thought or perspective that is being communicated to an audience, a listener, a community. She practices the Art of the Jazz Musician, drumming the rhythms of Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Free Jazz and Avant-Garde music. INFLUENCES Her grand-father, Maurice Clybouw, was the first one in her life to introduce her to the drums when Billie was about three years old. She has had a love relationship with rythm and drums ever since. Her deep rooted influences: Classical, Gypsy, Manouche, Blues, Jazz, Free Jazz and Soul/Funk. |
"Billie Davies is a force of nature! Billie has many years of experience as a Jazz drummer and Muse. She brings out the best in the musicians she works with. Billie is creative and focused on her music and art and brings her passion and experience to all of her creative endeavors.” John Parker, February 28, 2012. PEOPLE A lifetime of musical experiences in jams, performances, recordings and music production. To name a few of the musicians she had the fortune to play with and will never forget... She played Rock, Latin Rock, Blues and Rhythm & Blues with Pol Pieter Leemans, Bert De Conick, Claude Mazet, Steve Mowry, Lilian Jackson, Johnny Nitro with Johnny Ace, et al. She played Jazz, Improvisational Jazz and Avant-Garde Jazz with Leroy Vinegar, Gary Silva, John Handy, Joe Fuentes, Saul Kaye, Michael Godwin, Lee Elfenbein, Andre Lavelle, Steve Della Maggiora, Robert Sherman, Drew Waters, Pierre Swärd, Mark Schaeffer, John Parker, Daniel Coffeng, Manny Silvera, Tom Bone Ralls, Jon LaTona, Oliver Steinberg, Larry the guitar player Marx, et al.  Back |
ALBUMS/CDs    Please click the CD's or the Billie Davies official store banner to buy Billie Davies' music. 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. So far two albums, Cobra Basemento and Dreams have been created of that music. Back |
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Biography...  |
Billie was born on the coast of Belgium, Europe. Due to many moves in Europe, a bohemian lifestyle and immigration to the US, her European history has pretty much been erased... Her grand-father, Maurice Clybouw, was the first one in her life to introduce her to the drums when Billie was about three years old. She has had a love relationship with rythm and drums ever since. She has been surrounded and was educated as of her earliest remembrances in the Arts of Entertainment and Fashion, the Culinary Arts, the Fine Arts and the Performing Arts in Northern Europe, where she was born an artist and lived the first half of her life thriving in Europe's nightlife as a Musician and DJ. A life long natural musician, she is gifted, cultured, intelligent, passionate and playful, a European born and raised American citizen, she embraces and mixes both Contemporary cultures. She practices the Art of the Jazz Musician, drumming the rhythms of Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Free Jazz and Avant-Garde music. |
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