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Do Do Kindje Doo by Billie Davies

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Album Title: Retrospectives (In The Key Of Jazz)
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Duration: 01:30:51

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Billie Davies

drums
b.1955

" data-original-title="" title="">Billie Davies - drums, Tom Bone Ralls - trombone, Oliver Steinberg - bass, Larry the guitar player Marx - guitar. (December 2012) Recording and Mixing by Mike Davies at Billie Davies Hollywood Boulevard Studio in Los Angeles. Mastered by Mike Davies in 2025. Ever since Billie heard the song "Jean Pierre" by Miles Davis, she recognized the lullaby that inspired his music and that her grand mother Yvonne, her mother Simone and her aunts Monique and Jeanine would sing to babies:" Dodo, kindje do, slaap en doe je oogjes toe. Je moet niet liggen gapen als je toch niet kan slapen. Dodo, kindje do" or in french:" Dodo, l'enfant do. L'enfant dormira bien vite. Dodo, l'enfant do. L'enfant dormira bient?t". It stayed in her mind forever after she heard it played by Miles, she sang it to her baby son many times... so here is an improvisation on that specific lullaby that she took for a very long time as a kid for granted, inspired by Miles Davis.

Tracks

Hollywood Boulevard From The Window; Do Do Kindje Doo; Sunraaah; Melancholia Abstractissimus; Improvisationality; An Improvisation; An Improvisation Too; Art.

Personnel

Billie Davies

drums

Tom Bone Ralls

trombone

Oliver Steinberg

bass

Larry the guitarplayer Marx

guitar, electric

Daniel Coffeng

guitar, electric

Jacob Bartfield

bass

Jonathan Solomon

bass, acoustic

Evan Oberla

trombone

Branden James Lewis

trumpet

Oliver Watkinson

bass, acoustic

Ari Kohn

woodwinds

Allie Porter

vocals

Additional Personnel

Billie Davies: Hybrid Drums; Oliver Steinberg: Electric and Acoustic Bass; Daniel Coffeng: Electric Guitar Synth; Evan Oberla: Piano.

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Retrospectives (In The Key Of Jazz) by La-Faithia White

Date featured

April 21, 2025

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