“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 ...

Hal Crook began studying music in 1955 at the age of 5, inspired by his father's Dixieland jazz band playing jam sessions in the living room. He took piano lessons for 7 years, during which time he ...

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 ...