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",Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestley, The Rough Guide to Jazz, 3rd edition, London: Rough Guides, 2004, p. 42. the group won the Best Ensemble award at the Jazz à Vienne festival in 1997,The Rough Guide to Jazz (2004), p. 404. and their album of that year, Migrations, was described as "superb".The Rough Guide to Jazz (2004), p. 871.
History Gary Crosby formed the post-bop acoustic jazz group in 1991. 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."James Griffiths, "Gary Crosby's Nu Troop II", The Guardian, 3 March 2001.
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,"Gary Crosby's Nu Troop" at Air. with different incarnations of Nu Troop featuring Robert Michelle, Soweto Kinch, Sean Corby, Peter Edwards,Nick Hasted, "Gary Crosby's Nu Troop/Denys Baptiste Quartet, Ronnie Scott's, London", The Independent, 1 September 2009. Tony Kofi,Biography, Tony Kofi Music. and others."LIVE GIGS: Nu Troop, Jazz Jamaica, Nérija, Ezra Collective and more", Tomorrow's Warriors, 11 September 2014.
Albums Migrations (1997), Dune.
See also Tomorrow's Warriors
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