Theo Croker is a jazz trumpeter, composer and singer from the United States. The
grandson of jazz legend Doc Cheatham, Croker began playing his chosen instrument
at the age of eleven. He attended the prestigious Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio
where he was taught by Gary Bartz, Robin Eubanks, Billy Hart, Wendell Logan and
Marcus Belgrave. He graduated in 2007 and with a grant from the Presser Music
Foundation Award he made his first album, 'The Fundamentals', with The Theo
Croker Sextet. Croker lived in China for nearly a decade, with a a five-month
residency at Shanghai's House of ...