Chris Becker is a Houston-based composer and writer. He has written articles on music, visual art, dance, theater, and other subjects for Houston CityBook, Arts and Culture, TX, Houston Chronicle, Houstonia, Houston Press, Acoustic Guitar, Sequenza 21, The Jazz in M.E.E., and Los Angeles Review of Books.
Becker is also the author of the critically acclaimed book, Freedom of Expression: Interviews With Women in Jazz, a collection of in-depth interviews with 37 female musicians representing nearly every style of jazz one can imagine, and one of the contributors to Punk Ethnography: Artists & Scholars Listen to Sublime Frequencies (Wesleyan University Press).
As a former New Orleanian and New Yorker, I’ve lost track of how many natural and man-made disasters I’ve endured. Sometime between the COVID-19 pandemic and my first prescription for amlodipine and atorvastatin, I realized that the constant feeling of fight or flight was not only unproductive but could send me to the emergency room. […]
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