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SFJAZZ Collective At SFJAZZ
by David Becker
SFJAZZ Collective SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA October 20, 2016 What would Miles think? It was hard not to wonder as the SFJAZZ Collective, the San Francisco jazz presenter's long-running large ensemble project, kicked off it's 12th season with a program dominated by sometimes dramatically re-imagined versions of Miles ...
The Julian Lage Trio at SFJAZZ
by David Becker
The Julian Lage Trio SFJAZZ Center San Francisco Sept. 11, 2016 Guitar virtuosity was the theme for the opening week of San Francisco presenter SFJAZZ's 2016 season. In the intimate Joe Henderson Lab at the SFJAZZ Center, that meant four nights of modern guitar wunderkind Julian Lage working through a string ...
Dmitri Matheny: Flugelhorn Evangelist
by David Becker
The flugelhorn can be a difficult mistress. Players may find themselves endlessly explaining the differences between their axe and the trumpet, why their instrument seldom sounds like Miles Davis in a bad mood and why most horn players treat it as a specialty tool. But when someone with the authority of bebop legend and flugelhorn champion ...
Leaving Argentina
By David Becker
Label: Straw House Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: El Sue
David Becker Tribune: Leaving Argentina
by Budd Kopman
Leaving Argentina is an energetic and engrossing release from guitarist David Becker's group, The David Becker Tribune. Representing impressions of Spain, plus South America in general and Argentina in particular, this effort is a stylistic mix of Euroland (Cool Springs, 2005), a solo effort aimed at musical sound-painting, and Where's Henning? (Paras Recordings, 2004), a trio ...
David Becker / Joe Diorio: The Color Of Sound
by Budd Kopman
David Becker's previous release, Euroland, was a multitracked affair where Becker himself played all the instruments to produce a layered sound that evoked different images through music. On The Color of Sound, Becker plays duos with his mentor, Joe Diorio. For the most part, they both play standard electric guitar, but Becker throws ...
The Color Of Sound
By David Becker
Label: Acoustic Music Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Blues Fror Brother Bru; Beautiful Love; Waltz For Lavignia; Dance Of The Inner Valley; All The Things You Are; How Old Are You?; The Color of Sound; Reflections Of India; Stella By Starlight; How Old Do I Look?; Summertime; In A Minute.
Euroland
By David Becker
Label: Cool Springs
Released: 2005
Track listing: Celtic Sea; Dawn Over Dublin; Enter Asia; Istanbul; Hills in the Distance; View from Above;
Webergasse; Cathedrals Calling; Do Think About It; But Beautiful; Les Space in Art;
Euroland.
David Becker: Euroland
by Budd Kopman
David Becker grew up in Los Angeles but now lives in Wuppertal, Germany. He says that the impulse for Euroland was to “capture the vivid imagery of the European landscape with my guitar. One could say he as succeeded from the point of view of creating music that evokes images, some clearer than others, while a ...
Where
By David Becker
Label: Paras Recordings
Released: 2004
Track listing: On Green Dolphin Street; Footprints; Kurds and Waves; The Monkey; All Blues; As We Speak; Well, You Needn
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