Mainstream Straight-Ahead is an impassioned compilation of tunes around Stix Hooper’s joy of fishing and prowess as a musician. Hooper’s electric and eclectic career, experience and musicianship sets the pace and is the driving force of this recording, that contains and array of moods and abstract perceptions in an improvisatory, spontaneous, musical setting. It is “a prime example of Stix’s mastery of blues-tinged swing. It’s basic, it’s elemental, it’s as natural as breathing…”