Theo Croker

Jazz

The next Theo Croker concert is scheduled for Thursday, July 24, 2025 at The Fire Station in Sunderland, United Kingdom. See all 18 upcoming concerts

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Top Songs By Theo Croker

one pillowTheo Croker, Estelle & Kassa Overall

64 jointsTheo Croker & Tyreek McDole

we still wanna danceTheo Croker & D'LEAU

Listen to Dinner With Sade by Theo Croker, see lyrics, music video & more!

Dinner With SadeTheo Croker

up frequency (higher)Theo Croker & MAAD

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high vibrationsTheo Croker, Malaya & D'LEAU

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light as a featherTheo Croker, Gary Bartz & Natureboy Flako

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ALBUMDream ManifestTheo Croker

More albums from Theo Croker

ALBUMLOVE QUANTUMTheo Croker

Listen to BLK2LIFE // A FUTURE PAST by Theo Croker

ALBUMBLK2LIFE // A FUTURE PASTTheo Croker

Listen to Star People Nation by Theo Croker

ALBUMStar People NationTheo Croker

Listen to Escape Velocity by Theo Croker

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Listen to The Fundamentals by Theo Croker

ALBUMThe FundamentalsTheo Croker

Theo Croker's Popular Music Videos

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Understand Yourself (feat. Chronixx)

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Every Part of Me (feat. Ari Lennox)

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TO BE WE (feat. Jill Scott)

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State Of The Union 444 // BLK2THEFUTURE (feat. Wyclef Jean)

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LOVE THYSELF (feat. Teedra Moses)

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SOMETHIN' (feat. Ego Ella May)

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Happy Feet (for dancers) [feat. Malaya]

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JAZZ IS DEAD (feat. Gary Bartz & Kassa Overall)

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Make My Way Back Home (feat. Nick Hakim & Theo Croker)

Kassa Overall

SLOWLY (feat. Ego Ella May & D’LEAU)

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The trumpeter's wide jazz vision takes in hip-hop and funk.

About Theo Croker

Hometown

Leesburg, FL, United States

Born

July 18, 1985

Genre

Jazz

Emerging in a post-internet era of overnight successes and viral hits, trumpeter, composer, producer, and vocalist Theo Croker took the long road, turning his back on a burgeoning jazz career to spend much of his twenties performing and developing his work in China, paving the way for his breathless polyglot aesthetic. The grandson of the superb traditional New Orleans trumpeter Doc Cheatham, Croker was born in Leesburg, Florida, in 1985, and picked up the same horn aged 11. After graduating from Oberlin Conservatory in 2007 he moved to Shanghai, where he served as resident artist at the local House of Blues. In 2009, he released his first album, In the Tradition, paying homage to Cheatham, but by the time he returned to the U.S. in 2013 and dropped his Dee Dee Bridgewater-produced follow-up, Afro Physicist, the following year, his sound had blossomed into a seamless mélange of modern soul, supple hip-hop, sleek funk, and sultry post-bop. In the years since, that expansion has continued from all sides, with Croker deftly locating the overlap and illustrating the Black American music continuum with ease, intelligence, and genuine musical heft, shepherding Afrofuturist music into a new era.