{"id":57,"date":"2005-11-04T04:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jazzpianocafe.com\/piano\/57"},"modified":"2009-05-01T00:55:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T07:55:33","slug":"les-hooper-composer-and-arranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jazzpianocafe.com\/piano\/les-hooper-composer-and-arranger","title":{"rendered":"Les Hooper &#8211; Composer and Arranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatjazz.ca\">Fat Jazz big band<\/a> (in which I play piano), one of the tunes we are working on is called Poppin&#8217; Fresh by Les Hooper. It turns out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leshooper.com\">Les Hooper<\/a> is a prolific composer and arranger who also does work for TV, Movies, Cartoons, Commercials, and more. His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leshooper.com\">web site<\/a> has some incredible and amazing sounds samples. 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