Monte Croft

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Monte Croft (* around 1960) is an American musician ( vibraphone , also vocals) of modern jazz .

Live and act

Croft got a drum kit when he was ten ; at the age of 14 he switched to the vibraphone. From 1979 he studied at the Berklee School of Music and gained musical experience in the clubs of Boston. From 1983 he worked in the New York music scene as a multi-instrumentalist. In addition to the vibraphone, he works as a vocalist and plays drums, keyboards, harmonica, bass guitar and guitar. In the late 1980s he got the opportunity to record two jazz albums for Columbia Records with musicians such as Lonnie Plaxico , Mulgrew Miller and Gene Jackson , A Higher Life (1989) and Survival of the Spirit (1990); the third production, Interchords , was not released.

Croft also worked with James Spaulding , Nicholas Payton , Terence Blanchard ( A Jazzy Wonderland ), David Fathead Newman , Gino Vannelli , Cassandra Wilson , Brian Blade , Victor Bailey , Branford Marsalis , Hubert Laws , Jorge Sylvester , Charlie Hunter , Lizz Wright and Lenny White . In 2012 he was a member of the R&B / funk band The Average White Band . He also contributed music for TV shows such as One Night Only , Boardwalk Empire and Luke Cage . In the field of jazz, according to Tom Lord , he was involved in ten recording sessions between 1988 and 2012.

Croft is a "virtuoso of abstract, broken arpeggios " who plays in a weird style, heavily influenced by Thelonious Monk . He is married to the cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monte Croft, Vibraphone. Smalls, March 1, 2020, accessed March 11, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed March 11, 2020)
  3. ↑ Joachim-Ernst Berendt , Günther Huesmann : Das Jazzbuch: From New Orleans to the 21st century . 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Croft, Monte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (vibraphone)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1960