Theo Croker Quartet at the Cleveland 2010 Tri-C Jazz Fest
April 18th 2010, The free Debut Series concert at the Greg L. Reese Performing Arts Center in the East Cleveland Public Library has become a JazzFest staple. Kicking off the show this year was a quartet of Oberlin grads led by trumpeter Theo Croker. With a deep, full tone recalling Ron Miles, Croker favored slow trills that often worked in consort with electric bubbles gurgling from keyboardist Sullivan Fortner’s Fender Rhodes. On piano, Fortner launched forceful, angular attacks that included classical and Latin shifts as well as strumming of the instrument’s strings. While the group stuck mostly to original Croker compositions, including the swirling “Meditations,” wild “Transcend” and anthemic ode to President Obama, “Change,” it also gave an inspired reading of “My Funny Valentine” that started from a sensitively fragile, warbling trumpet solo and steadily grew darker until succumbing to a mournful piano passage.
Cleveland 2010 Tri-C Jazz Fest Review
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