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Born in Iowa, USA, the saxophonist and composer started his professional musical career in 1965 in Memphis, Tennessee. He quickly gained an outstanding reputation in the Memphis “scene” (hanging out with the Memphis horns) as a brilliant saxophone and flute player and achieved legendary fame as “the man who plays two saxophones at the same time”! After two years of military service with the U.S. Army Band, he travelled musically until 1975 through the southern part of the US (Dallas, St. Louis, Nashville, Muscle Shoals, Alabama, etc.), while working as a highly respected studio musician and writer. In 1975 he settled down in Los Angeles to work as musical director for various well-known bands and founded his own popular jazz band - “The Steve Hooks Band”. That promptly lead to countless recording sessions for records and TV and he soon became a staff writer for Warner Brothers Music. In 1995 Hooks (the “Jazz Bear”), moved to Munich, Germany. Again he became an in-demand songwriter/musician for studio, television and movies. Hooks founded a new Jazz Band called “Too Cold”. He toured for 4 years with “The Weather Girls” as a musician and musical director and spent 4 years touring with acclaimed jazz drummer “Charly Antolini”. Currently he plays in countless clubs and jazz festivals all over Europe with people like Max Greger Jr. and others jazz artists. At the beginning of 2007 he joined the Ron Evans Group on keyboards, saxophones & flute because there is more to life than Jazz. „He has a feel for music and his instruments that is seldom displayed today.” (The Daily Aztec, USA)The absolute highlights were delivered by the velvety or rather distinguished saxophone solos by Steve Hooks, especially when he worked two saxophones at the same time.” (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany.) The new CD ‚Double Fun’ is an absolute musical jewel, on which Steve Hooks takes his music to new shores and where he combines Jazz with modern elements from pop, jazz and fusion, always sticking to his lifetime motto: „Music from the heart!” |
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