*Best known as an original member of the pioneering band The Jazz Crusaders (later The Crusaders), Nesbert “Stix” Hooper has enjoyed an illustrious career as a musician, composer, record producer, ...

Nesbert “Stix” Hooper returns home this week for the first time in maybe 20 years. He thinks the last time he was here was for a class reunion at Phillis Wheatley High School. The legendary drummer ...

Since his childhood in the 1940s, Nesbert Hooper sat behind a drum kit with a pair of wooden implements that lent him his nickname. Stix Hooper has played on all manner of sessions: He was part of the ...

Jazz musician Stix Hooper first met broadcaster Saul Levine in the ’60s when Hooper was the drummer in the Crusaders, and Levine owned and operated KBCA (105.1 FM), the top jazz radio station in ...