Theon Cross

Theon Cross is a London-based tuba player, composer, and bandleader. Since 2015, he has been a key component in the city's revitalized jazz scene and a first-call sideman whose unique brand of "tuba bass" ranges across and combines jazz, funk, dubstep, grime, hip-hop, dub, soca, and improvised music. He is a founding member of the award-winning quartet Sons of Kemet, and has worked with Moses Boyd, Jon Batiste, Makaya McCraven, and Courtney Pine, among others. He is a member of South London-based jazz-funk collective Steam Down. Cross leads his own eclectic ensemble to explore...