Jazz Articles about Luico Hopper

Luico Hopper: Reflections

by AAJ Staff
February 1, 2001

It’s significant that bassist Luico Hopper covers a Bill Withers tune (“Lovely Day”) on his new disc. Like that master of earthy soul, Hopper’s approach to his own idiom – smooth jazz, to pick an umbrella term – has an honest, downhome feel to it. The requisite surface features are there (drum programming, keyboards, easy grooves), but the result stands out by virtue of its human warmth.

Hopper’s writing palette allows for a wide variety of colors, as on the ...