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Jazz Minute: "Radio Rob" Crocker on the liner notes for "Alto Memories"

Gary Bartz Sonny
Verve Records
Gary Bartz Sonny Fortune: Alto Memories

About 6 years ago, while I’m sitting home drinking a couple of Heineken beers. I pulled out a CD I produced in the ’90s titled Gary Bartz & Sonny Fortune: Alto Memories with Kenny Barron, Buster Williams and Jack DeJohnette). Grooving to the CD and having another beer, I began to read the liner notes. It was wonderful reading, but I couldn’t remember who Verve Records paid to write this…..but it was outstanding, fluid and….well just beautiful.

Then I got to the end of the liner notes…..and began to cry. The writer…..it was me.

WBGO announcer Rob Crocker
WBGO
WBGO announcer Rob Crocker

NOTE: You can hear Rob Crocker's "Late Nights Weekend" on Saturdays 10pm to 2am on WBGO 88.3 FM and wbgo.org.

Rob Crocker was a Brooklyn born high school musician whose career took a turn towards broadcasting when injuries, sustained in Vietnam, cut short his future as a performer. He started his broadcasting career as a programmer in Europe; Rob co-hosted the Holland based show "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands", by Radio Free America.