Noah Garabedian - Quartets and Solos (2025) [Hi-Res]

Bass player and composer Noah Garabedian’s music wrestles with the tension and harmony between solitude and community — a push and pull at the core of his creative philosophy. “Community and socialization are essential ingredients to music, especially improvised music,” he says. “But as I have grown older, I have learned how to celebrate and cherish being alone; how to find comfort in being by yourself.”

That balance fuels his work on Quartets and Solos. “Artistic creation doesn’t just appear out of nowhere — it comes from a deep fountain that is replenished and fed by the community that teaches you, nourishes you, and holds you,” he says. “But artistic creation is also done through your own will power... it’s about frequency and the continued drive for creation, evolution, and production.”

The album lives in that push and pull. It opens up space for expansive quartet dialogue and tightens focus for distilled, one-on-one meditations — a vivid portrait of an artist drawing power from both collective momentum and personal clarity.

Noah Garabedian - Bass
Dayna Stephens - Tenor Saxophone and EWI Carmen Staaf - Piano
Jimmy Macbride - Drums
Samuel Adams - synths, effects, programming