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The Les Hooper Band: Out of the Woods
by Jack Bowers
On “New Suit for Zoot" (aka “Tickletoe"), the latest edition of Les Hooper's southern California-based big band kicks the accelerator and really burns rubber. Unfortunately, that's one of the few high spots in an otherwise curiously lackluster album that seems to be aimed for the most part at what's left of the commercial jazz market. Hooper has a game plan, and he's at least upfront about it. “The range of music here is wide," he writes, “and ...
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