David Becker at Stage 33 Live

Guitarist, composer, and producer David Becker is one of the most highly-regarded jazz musicians working today, combining diverse influences and a passion for the new and different — playing for the present, with an eye on the past and future. He has notched up accolades over the past four decades, sharing stages with Miles Davis, Chick Corea, and Michael Brecker, to name a few, and collaborating with Pat Metheney, John Abercrombie, Mike Stern, and more.

Becker has performed at some of the world’s most prestigious venues, including London’s Barbican Centre, Rotterdam’s De Doelen, Madison Square Garden and Birdland in New York, as well as international festivals including Monterey Jazz Festival, Buenos Aires Jazz Festival, Attila Zoller Festival, and more. He has released 20 albums, many topping the jazz and contemporary music charts.

In addition to Grammy and Emmy nominations, Heritage guitars introduced a David Becker Signature Model at the 2015 Winter NAMM Show, and Homestead Guitars debuted his signature acoustic in 2020. Sheptone produces David Becker Signature Strings.

“A poet on the Jazz Guitar.” — Downbeat

“A virtuoso.” — Gitarre & Bass

“One of the best jazz guitarists ever.” — Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen Television

In 2021, during the pandemic, Becker taped a series for the Space Channel called Planets — a trip around the solar system with music for each planet. He will be performing excerpts from this program with stunning artwork from the series projected onto a large screen.

He’s been selling out theaters in Japan, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, and America, but also loves an intimate audience. That’s where Stage 33 Live’s 40 seats come in. David Becker will perform his solo show Planets on Saturday, November 23, 2024 — a captivating audiovisual expedition with projections of the cosmos enhancing his compositions and improvisations… a celestial odyssey aboard a transcendent spacecraft through the sounds, energy, and mystery of the planets of our solar system.

Tickets are $20 in advance through stage33live.com, or at the door subject to availability; advance tickets guarantee entry. Only 40 tickets will be sold. The performance will be recorded and filmed.

Stage 33 Live is a casual and intimate industrial-rustic listening room in a former factory hosting local, regional, and national performances and presentations of original material. No bar or kitchen, the stage is the mission; coffee / soda / juice / water and weird snacks available by donation. More info about the nonprofit, all-volunteer project, and this and other upcoming events, online at stage33live.com

Stage 33 Live gratefully acknowledges the help of so many individuals without whom none of this would be able to happen, and institutional support this season from The Island Corporation, the Vermont Arts Council, Guilford Sound, WOOL-FM, the Rockingham Arts & Museum Project, and Chroma Technologies to help fund improvements and maintenance, and generally smooth out a lot of the rough edges. Stage 33 Live is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, and all donations are deductible to the fullest extent. Volunteers run the thing from stem to stern.