Checking In w/ Theo Croker
Checking In with Michelle Williams
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Michelle and Theo are reviewing the standards. Theo explores the history of Jazz music in this country and overseas. He also discusses how perfecting his self love reflected in his relationships and his music, becoming friends with musicians who inspired him and what it takes to be successful as a young musician. CHECK IN to this episode to be blown away.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome to checking in with Michelle Williams, a production of IHeart Radio and The Black Effect. |
| 0:21.6 | Hey, what's up,? I am truly, truly excited. |
| 0:26.6 | Listen, this next guest can definitely entrancy with their talent and transport your emotions to another level. |
| 0:35.6 | And he's coming up next here on checking in. |
| 0:39.3 | I get really excited when we talk to musicians, singers, writers. |
| 0:46.3 | Everyone's creative that comes on my podcast, but I'm extremely excited about this next guest. |
| 0:52.3 | He's an American jazz trumpeter, composer, producer, |
| 0:56.2 | and vocalist. Yes, he's a Grammy Award nominee, three-time Echo Award nominee, as well as a Theodore |
| 1:04.6 | Presser Award recipient. Please welcome Theodore. Wait a minute. Not Theodore. |
| 1:12.6 | Oh, thank you for having me. |
| 1:14.6 | And I said Theodore because I just said Theodore Presser. |
| 1:17.6 | And knowing that Theo is short for Theodore. |
| 1:22.1 | But if you wanted people to call you Theodore, that's what you'd go by. |
| 1:25.5 | So, y'all welcome once again, Theo Croker. |
| 1:30.6 | Let's go. So I love jazz, but I'm sure in order to have played jazz, you had to start off playing, |
| 1:39.2 | I don't know, did you start playing in school? Because you know how in school, we just played the |
| 1:43.0 | American standards. Yeah, I mean, I came from a musical family, so like really, start playing in school because you know how in school we just played the american standards yeah i mean |
| 1:45.9 | i came from a musical family so like really i started off in the bathtub with chopsticks or you know |
| 1:51.3 | at the dinner table with silverware but when i started getting training it was in middle school and it |
| 1:56.4 | was in band class for trump yeah absolutely they talked a whole class together at one time. |
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