Theo Croker

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Theo Croker's news entries:

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    Kenny Garrett’s Sounds From The Ancestors is among DownBeat’s latest crop of 5-star reviews.

    Best Albums of 2021

    Welcome to DownBeat’s best-reviewed albums of 2021. Below you’ll find the 5-star recordings, both new and…

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    Eddie Palmieri is set to stream a performance on Saturday.

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    Veronica Swift has both a historical connection to the music and a desire to expand its artistic purview.

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    Theo Croker is among the 25 artists DownBeat thinks will help shape jazz in the decades to come.

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    The Le Boeuf Brothers are set to stream a Tuesday performance.

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    Whether riffing on his latest album, his dynastic jazz family, his formative experiences in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, his teaching experiences, his interest in science or his love of sports, Branford Marsalis speaks his truth.

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    Bassist and bandleader Christian McBride, who has won six Grammy awards, has three more Grammy nominations.

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    John Scofield performs with the Danish Radio Big Band on Oct. 24 during the Umeå Jazzfestival, which ran Oct. 23-27 in Umeå, Sweden.

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    The development of Star People Nation—the first album in which Theo Croker has sole producer credit—involved an 18-month journey to both U.S. coasts and multiple recording studios, where he played auxiliary keyboards and synths, crafted electronic and acoustic beats, incorporated samples and wrote lyrics to be sung by himself and special guests.

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    Kassa Overall’s leader debut is titled Go Get Ice Cream And Listen To Jazz.

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    Roy Hargrove (1969–2018)

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    Trumpeters Ingrid Jensen (left), Jason Palmer, Theo Croker, Darren Barrett, Maurice Brown and Marquis Hill perform at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola on Sept. 21


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