New Jersey-born lyric tenor Howard Crook worked in theatre and mime before becoming a professional singer after winning prizes in some European vocal competitions. Howard Crook specialized in singing ...

On Thursday night, Berklee College of Music celebrated the career of Hal Crook, an internationally-known jazz trombonist, a graduate of Berklee, and a professor at the college since 1986. Students and ...

Obscured in fog so thick it’s nearly opaque, while colored lights illuminate their faces with strange hues, the two members of Crook & the Bluff make impressive figures onstage. With a strong ...

“What do you call a trombonist with a pager?” goes the old joke. “An optimist.” Trombonist and master educator Hal Crook joined the Berklee faculty in 1986 when pagers were still a thing, having ...