Artist: Theo Croker
Album: Dream Manifest
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2025
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 48 kHz
Duration: 41:11
Total Tracks: 9
Total Size: 497 MB

Tracklist:

1-1. Theo Croker – prelude 3 (02:20)
1-2. Theo Croker – one pillow (03:43)
1-3. Theo Croker – 64 joints (06:20)
1-4. Theo Croker – up frequency (higher) (03:35)
1-5. Theo Croker – light as a feather (03:47)
1-6. Theo Croker – high vibrations (05:35)
1-7. Theo Croker – crystal waterfalls (05:12)
1-8. Theo Croker – we still wanna dance (07:37)
1-9. Theo Croker – postlude 3 (02:57)

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By all measures, Theo Croker is a jazz artist. The 39-year-old trumpeter-composer has been a Grammy nominee in the jazz fields; he played all the great jazz venues around the world; he was mentored by Donald Byrd at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he graduated with a degree in jazz music; and Dee Dee Bridgewater produced his third album, “Afro Physicist,” which features fellow trumpeter Roy Hargrove.

Yes, if you must categorize his music, then Croker is a true jazz artist. However, as a citizen of the world who lived and worked seven years in China and now splits his time between Orlando, Fla., and São Paulo, Brazil, Croker has a very different definition of jazz than the standard American interpretation.“Jazz, or the music I make, is much more open-minded, because the other places I go and spend a lot of time and play music, jazz is a very broad term and generally just means Black music,” he tells The Times. “Like in China, to them, jazz is Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Miles Davis, Coltrane — all of that is jazz to them. It’s not as constricted of a definition as it tends to be in America, where it’s like, ‘Oh, if it’s not purist, it’s not jazz.’ But I don’t have those issues in other places. People are just open-minded to it.”