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Theo Croker at Turner Sims
Courtesy of Jo Roberts | Posted on February 24, 2022
Where
Turner Sims
Highfield Campus, University Of Southampton
Southampton
Map
+44 (0)2380595151
When
Thu, May 12, 2022
20:00
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Musicians
About
Theo Croker is a storyteller who speaks through his trumpet. The GRAMMY®️ Award-nominated artist, composer and producer projects his voice through the music. Croker crash-landed with a simmering original sound on the 2014 Dee Dee Bridgewater-assisted album Afro Physicist. Following the success of Escape Velocity in 2016, his 2019 release Star People Nation 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.’...