THEO CROKER *live

In the organizer's words:

Hypnotic jazz compositions between tradition and modernity.

Trumpeter, producer and composer Theo Croker is a storyteller who speaks through his trumpet - overcoming boundaries and making himself heard through music.

With the albums "BLK2LIFE II A Future Past" (2021), "Love Quantum" (2022) and the EP "By The Way" (2023), he has musically reappraised an important part of the origin, present and future of Black Music Culture in the USA. Theo Croker is thus at the forefront of a young generation of musicians* in the African-American jazz scene who are shedding new light on the musical heritage and formative cultural achievements of their predecessors, confidently reappraising their contribution to the development of US music and leaving traditional genre boundaries behind.

Gospel, blues, jazz, soul, funk: Theo Croker emphasizes the musical-historical similarities of all these genres and transforms them into a new, contemporary sound. On a meta-level, these currents are connected for him in the positive creative power of love, which makes it possible to create new worlds of experience and realities against all odds: "Love Quantum is also a tribute to all the different levels of love that can exist - love for a friend, love for a partner, love for a parent, love for oneself and love for life. It's about how powerful this energy is for us as humans."