Gary Crosby's Nu Troop
OriginLondon, United Kingdom
GenresJazz
LabelsDune
MembersGary Crosby, Abram Wilson, Denys Baptiste, Andrew McCormack, Rod Youngs

Gary Crosby's Nu Troop is a post-bop jazz group formed in 1991 by musician Gary Crosby in London. Referred to by The Rough Guide to Jazz as "one of the most important UK bands",[1] the group won the Best Ensemble award at the Jazz à Vienne festival in 1997,[2] and their album of that year, Migrations, was described as "superb".[3]

History

Gary Crosby formed the post-bop acoustic jazz group in 1991.[4] According to James Griffiths, writing in The Guardian: "The original Nu Troop was a conscious attempt to imitate Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, with leader and bassist Gary Crosby (formerly of the Jazz Warriors) providing a nurturing environment for an ever-changing assembly of hot young players."[5]

As well as Crosby on double bass, the group's line-up has included Abram Wilson on trumpet, Denys Baptiste on tenor saxophone, Neil Yates on trumpet, Andrew McCormack on piano and Rod Youngs on drums,[6][7] with different incarnations of Nu Troop featuring Robert Michelle, Soweto Kinch, Sean Corby,[5] Peter Edwards,[8] Tony Kofi,[9] and others.[10]

Albums

  • Migrations (1997), Dune.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestley, The Rough Guide to Jazz, 3rd edition, London: Rough Guides, 2004, p. 42.
  2. ↑ The Rough Guide to Jazz (2004), p. 404.
  3. ↑ The Rough Guide to Jazz (2004), p. 871.
  4. ↑ "Gary Crosby on Dune Records". Dune Records. Retrieved 21 November 2008.
  5. 1 2 James Griffiths, "Gary Crosby's Nu Troop II", The Guardian, 3 March 2001.
  6. ↑ "Nu Troop on Dune Records". Dune Records. Retrieved 21 November 2008.
  7. ↑ "Gary Crosby's Nu Troop" at Air.
  8. ↑ Nick Hasted, "Gary Crosby's Nu Troop/Denys Baptiste Quartet, Ronnie Scott's, London", The Independent, 1 September 2009.
  9. ↑ Biography, Tony Kofi Music.
  10. ↑ "LIVE GIGS: Nu Troop, Jazz Jamaica, Nérija, Ezra Collective and more", Tomorrow's Warriors, 11 September 2014.
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