Noah Becker –alto saxophone, clarinet
Alex Levine –guitar
Tyrone Allen –upright bass
Stephen Boegehold –drums
Noah Becker is an alto saxophonist, clarinetist and composer raised in Philadelphia and based in New York. His forthcoming record with his band Underthought, The Hollow Count, will be his first as a leader. Other recent activity includes releasing Retumbra, the eponymous debut from a band he co-leads; The Stormy Overflow, a short original music/painting/video piece premiered at The Jazz Gallery lockdown session in March; ethnomusicological studies in Israel, in preparation for a long-term project that will use Jewish musics to combat antisemitism in the United States; and TRUMP: An Unspoken Truth, a solo project that explores and reimagines the evil words of Donald Trump to present a greater truth. He has performed at venues throughout New York, and has toured nationally and internationally as a leader and sideman.
Noah's music incorporates stark melodies and harmonies, strong rhythmic independence of voices, sinewy orchestrations, and a discerning awareness of music's ability to shape and alter our experience of the passage of time. He explores musical forms in search of the organic and human, and divisions between composition and improvisation are quick to dissolve inside his sound world. He is attuned to the interplay of the vibrations of sound, and the different ways we relate to them—through our bodies as resonant listeners, and our minds as co-creators of music and art.