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Nesbert "Stix" Hooper (born August 15, 1938) is an American drummer and founding member of The Crusaders.
Stix Hooper is one of the most influential and innovative musical artists of our time. An internationally renowned drummer, Hooper is best known as one of the founders of the seminal group, “The Crusaders,” which garnered numerous platinum and gold albums during their incredible 30-year career.
Musician-producer-composer-entrepreneur, Stix Hooper, is a multi-grammy nominated artist and a recipient of many national and international awards and citations.
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Hooper has been in Los Angeles far longer than he was ever in Houston. That said, he was raised in this city and found kindred spirits at Wheatley High School. The stories of great jazz ensembles almost always involve players from varied places coming together through good fortune, luck or kismet. Such was not the case in Fifth Ward, where Wheatley...
The evolution of Hooper’s band is intriguing. The Modern Jazz Sextet became the Jazz Crusaders, who made several albums in the early 1960s because Amy vouched for them to the Pacific Jazz label. The group recorded a progressive bebop through the ’60s but changed course around 1970 when jazz’s seams were being pulled in different directions: between...
Admittedly, jazz critics were unkind to the Crusaders when the ensembles crusade involved dropping “Jazz” from the name. But with a long view, the Crusaders were trail guides for all manner of contemporary music that refuses to let jazz be cornered by rigid parameters. “Shouldn’t it be about camaraderie between musicians?” Hooper says. Camaraderie ...
5 de abr. de 2006 · Stix Hooper. Biography. Articles. News. Press. A native of Houston, Texas, Stix developed an interest in music, drums and percussion at a very early age.
In a departure from his typical style, Hooper has taken a new approach with his latest recording, (his first in five years,) revisiting many of his own classic compositions and expanding beyond his characteristic groove to explore the orchestral genre.
