Theodore L. Croker, a junior at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Cleveland, has been selected for an internship this summer with the jazz-mentor program at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif.
The 20-year-old is the grandson of the late jazz great Adolphus “Doc" Cheatham. He is the son of Alicia Croker of Leesburg and the late William H. Croker.
Croker, who plays the trumpet, also was the recipient this year of the Theodore Presser Music Award, a $7,000 grant from the Presser Foundation. Croker will use the grant to complete a recording project that will include his musical interpretations of his grandfather's recordings, which are archived at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
Last year, Croker recorded a CD, Generations, with percussionist Bill Ransom.
Croker is scheduled to perform a tribute to his grandfather in August in upstate New York with jazz musicians Chuck Folds and Catherine Russell.
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The 20-year-old is the grandson of the late jazz great Adolphus “Doc" Cheatham. He is the son of Alicia Croker of Leesburg and the late William H. Croker.
Croker, who plays the trumpet, also was the recipient this year of the Theodore Presser Music Award, a $7,000 grant from the Presser Foundation. Croker will use the grant to complete a recording project that will include his musical interpretations of his grandfather's recordings, which are archived at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
Last year, Croker recorded a CD, Generations, with percussionist Bill Ransom.
Croker is scheduled to perform a tribute to his grandfather in August in upstate New York with jazz musicians Chuck Folds and Catherine Russell.
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