Stix Hooper (Nesbert "Stix" Hooper) is an Amreican drummer most note for playing with "The Jazz Crusader". He made more than thirty two albums with them and six albums as leader.

He has worked and recorded with Arthur Fiedler, George Shearing, B.B. King, Grant Green, Grover Washington Jr., Quincy Jones, Marvin Gaye, Nancy Wilson, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London, and the Rolling Stones, Bobby Hutcherson, Larry Cralton, Freddie Hubbard and others.

This is Stix playing "Freedom Sound" from the album Freedom Sound.