Salon Sessions: On The #1 with Steven Kroon

By Sheila Anderson

Published May 23, 2017 at 11:55 AM EDT

A professional musician for over 45 years, percussionist, Steve Kroon has worked with artists as diverse as Luther Vandross to Ron Carter. He sat down with Salon Sessions host Sheila Anderson and talked about his work with various artist over the years, and his experience as a band leader.

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Sheila Anderson

In 1995 Sheila E. Anderson joined the staff of WBGO in Newark, New Jersey where she hosts Weekend Jazz Overnight and Salon Sessions. She has authored four books: The Quotable Musician: From Bach to Tupac (2003), How to Grow as A Musician: What All Musicians Must Know to Succeed (2005) (both published by Allworth Press), The Little Red Book of Musicians Wisdom (Skyhorse Press, 2012) and the 2nd edition of How to Grow as A Musician was published in 2019, In addition to curating jazz at the Newark Museum of Art, Ms. Anderson is a 2017 Columbia University Community Scholar, an inaugural Dan Morgenstern Fellow by the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers-Newark (2020), is a graduate of Baruch College and resides in Harlem, NYC.

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