Theo Croker

A creative who refuses boundaries, the GRAMMY Award-nominated Florida artist, composer, producer, thought leader, and influencer Theo Croker is a storyteller who speaks through his trumpet.

After seven years of sojourn in China including a five-month residency at Shanghai's House of Blues, where he broadened his concept of jazz to encompass other genres such as salsa, fusion-rock, R&B, hip-hop and blues, Croker crash-landed with a simmering original sound on the 2014 Dee Dee Bridgewater-assisted album "Afro Physicist", and ascended to a new stratosphere with "Star People Nation" in 2019.

The record garnered a nomination in the category of "Best Contemporary Instrumental Album'' at the 62nd GRAMMY Awards.

It attracted widespread critical acclaim including The New York Times who called it “an album that gallivants from swirling, left-field hip-hop beats to propellant swing to entrancing passages of African percussion.

Through it all, Croker’s understated trumpet playing holds his small band together with swagger and poise.”

Along the way, he also lent his sound to platinum selling albums by everyone from J. Cole to Ari Lennox while touring his band across the globe many times over.