David Becker


David Becker is an American jazz guitarist. He is also a graduate of the Musicians Institute.

David Becker Tribune

David and his brother Bruce formed the David Becker Tribune and toured Germany in 1984. After touring the colleges that same year, the band signed with MCA and released its debut album Long Peter Madsen in 1986. In 1988, Siberian Express, produced with Ken Caillat was released and reached No. 3 on R&R and the track "Anja" reached No. 1. This was followed in 1990 and 1991 by two albums, Third Time Around and In Motion.
In 2001, the band released one of the first DVD-Audio recordings, Germerica. In 2004, Where's Henning reached No. 34 on the JazzWeek chart. A solo album, Euroland, and a duo with jazz guitarist Joe Diorio, The Color of Sound, followed in 2005.
Batavia was released world wide on August 6, 2010 to coincide with the 65th anniversary of the dropping of the atom bomb in Japan. The compositions were influenced by Becker's mother's family in Indonesia and their internment in a Japanese concentration camp during World War II. Batavia was voted one of the Best World Music recordings of 2010 by World Music Central.org. In 2013 Distance Traveled was released and reached No. 18 on the CMJ charts. In July 2015, Becker released the solo album The Lonely Road. In 2018, Becker recorded a duo outing with former Ray Charles guitarist, Brad Rabuchin as a tribute to the late guitarist John Abercrombie. For John was released in June 2019.

Signature model guitar

At the 2015 Winter NAMM show, Heritage Guitars unveiled the David Becker H- 575 Signature model.

Other projects

Becker also appears on the Colbie Caillat album, Breakthrough as well as her album All of You. He produced an Attila Zoller tribute album released by Enja in 2015. The album includes Ron Carter, Pat Metheny, Mike Stern, and John Abercrombie. In September 2019, Becker appeared in a podcast together with Country legend Vince Gill.

Discography