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] 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.