Adrian C and Doc D

Adrian C and Doc D are an accordion and percussion driven duo that play music from composers near and far. Adrian Crookston, accordion, is an Italian-American accordion player who started playing accordion while his family was living in Torino Italy in 2009. Doc D, percussion, is Assistant Professor of Black Music in America and Social Justice at Washington State University and a member of the Jazz Studies faculty. He also teaches jazz percussion and performs with Jazz Northwest, the faculty jazz ensemble.

“Adrian Crookston, an accordion mage who somehow fits 42 notes into every bar, keeps that squeezebox droning, and sings”

-American Standard Time

“Adrian Crookston drew eager waves of dancers toward the stage, infecting the crowd with frenetic, rousing pace of Brazilian street music, reminiscent of troubadours and wandering gypsy bands, sometimes winsome and far too easy to dance to.”

—Nepali Times