American jazz critic, poet and jazz drummer.
Born December 14, 1945 in Los Angeles, CA
Died September 16, 2020 in New York City, NY
A former adherent of Black Nationalism (a movement he publicly renounced in 1979), he took up the drums in 1966 and performed with avant-garde musicians including Bobby Bradford and David Murray. During the 1970s, he taught black cultural studies in California, before moving to New York in 1975, and writing for The Village Voice from 1980 until 1988. Crouch was a co-founder of Jazz At Lincoln Center with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, whose music he much admired, and wrote for JazzTimes until 2003.