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Daniel Coffeng

Daniel Coffeng hails originally from Amsterdam, The Netherlands and brings a new, unique technical fluidity and energy to post bop and avant-garde jazz improvisation.

Growing up as part of a huge multi-racial family, he was at a very young age exposed to a lot of different music and cultures from all over the world. After taking classical lessons for a year he switched to electric guitar and began to explore the immensely vast world of music from all over the world, from Jazz, Blues, Soul, Reggae, Classical and Rock to Indian Sitar music, ancient Greek, Indonesian, Japanese Koto, Latin-American and West African music. His explorations of different string instruments introduced him to expansive new sounds and musical possibilities.

Daniel Coffeng is an honors graduate from the Guitar Institute of technology where he studied guitar with Sid Jacobs, Carl Schroeder, Scott Henderson, Ross Bolton and Brett Garsed.

He has played, toured written and recorded with numerous artists in a variety of styles such as; Steve Tavaglione, Doug Lunn, Brock Avery, Coco Roussel, Mike Barsimanto,Vasyl Popadiuk, Frescia Belmar, Phil Chen, Phil Ranelin, Joe Hesse, Eric Traub, Barry Stephenson, Nelson Braxton, Marcus Shelby, Farzin Farhedi, Jarrett Borba, Lenard Curiel, Mike Fleischman, Khalil Hebert, Dean DeBenedictis, Mick Stevens (Brand X), Breeze Smith, Manny Silvera, John von Seggern, Ronnie Hudson, Ed Townsend, David Strayer, Faye Caroll, Darwin Tillery, Mosheh Milon, The Gordy family, Madiou Diouf, KC Womack, Fred Boekhorst, Brian Allen, Hillary Kingman, Petro Bass, Masaki Toraiwa, Kota Omori, Aki Fujimoto, Will Mack among others.

He is currently featured as an online columnist for Koala Music, a company based in Adelaide, Australia and Uberchord Engineering, based in Germany.

He also played on several film soundtracks, most notably the movie "Homecoming" directed by Eugene Ashe of Seven letter Word Films in N.Y.C.

He is currently working on a full length CD with his original post modern avant garde jazz group "D.B.D. Trio" and continues to perform with his ambient fusion band "The Stratos Ensemble" and his own post bop organ trio.

He remains to reside in Los Angeles, CA and work as a performing guitarist, freelance studio musician and music educator specializing in modern contemporary guitar.

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Billie Davies: 12 Volt

Read "12 Volt" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Drummer Billie Davies' previous recording, All About Love (Self Produced, 2012) was novel and compelling, a trombone trio with the drummer lead. Davies assembled original and standard works, achieving both educational and artistic endpoints. The present recording, 12 Volt, retains the trio format, substituting the guitar for the trombone and pushes the trio envelope out with a moody collection of eight originals, when considered together comprise an avant-garde suite possibly conceived by Grant Green and John Coltrane. ...

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Billie Davies: 12 Volt

Read "12 Volt" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Belgium native and Los Angeles based drummer Billie Davies continues to forge her own path in the improvised music world. Endowed with an explorative temperament and unique, yet definite swing sense, Davies pays homage to Gypsy musicians on her fourth release as a leader, 12 Volt. Just to be clear, this is not an album reinterpreting guitarist Django Reinhardt's tunes or anyone else's for that matter. It is a cohesive work of bold innovation and free flowing spontaneity ...

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F E A T U R E D R E V I E W S

"Bewitching European artists' light captured in uncomplicated droplets of color from Daniel Coffeng's guitar. He brings extraordinary facility for transition and energetic flow to avant jazz improvisation with an extended, progressive, detailed solos, always clear and precise. His musical experience is deeply rooted in music cultures which reach into jazz, classical, blues, soul, reggae, through to classical, rock, Eastern music, Latin American and West African music."

C.J. Bond – Jazz Music.com

"Daniel Coffeng is an incredibly engaging guitarist in the tradition of perhaps a John Abercrombie. The harmonic exploratory conceived here is performed with a deceptively subtle uniformity while remaining abstract enough to attack the listener on a cerebral front. The perfect marriage of simplicity and complexity."

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

12 VOLT

Cobra Basement
2013

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