Theodore Lee Croker is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, producer, and vocalist from Leesburg, Florida. He attended Oberlin College and is the grandson of Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Doc Cheatham. He is a Grammy Award nominee, three-time Echo Award nominee, and a Theodore Presser Award recipient. He released these five studio albums: Fundamentals (2006), In the Tradition (2009), Afro Physicist (2014), Escape Velocity (2016), and Star People Nation (2019). He has also been featured on J. Cole's 4 Your Eyez Only (2016), Common's Black America Again(2016), and Ari Lennox's debut album Shea Butter Baby (2019).
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)
Guest starring as Theo Croker
- Episode 2021-09-30: John Lithgow, Theo Croker, Wyclef Jean (Sep 30, 2021)