Nate's profile
Nate Hook has been described as "A tried and true proponent of the thick, muscular, heavier-than-heavyweight school of tenor saxophone" by All About Jazz. He began his performance career at The Elephant Room, a basement jazz club in his hometown of Austin, Texas. There he was able to learn from veteran musicians of the Austin Jazz scene like Tony Campise, Jeff Hellmer, Bruce Saunders, Paul White, Ephraim Owens, and Andre Hayward.
From Austin, he moved to New Jersey, where he studied with the likes of Harold Mabern, Vincent Herring, Mulgrew Miller, and Bill Mobley. After finishing his degree at William Paterson, he moved to Brooklyn where his work as a composer and performer began to blossom. While studying independently with Mark Shim and Gary Thomas, two living titans of the tenor saxophone, he started his band "Mobiustrip" in 2013, and then the "Nate Hook Quartet" in early 2014. "Mobistrip" was heavily influenced by Gary Thomas' Harmonic approach as well as the rhythmic structures Nate encountered both in the NYC jazz scene and in a series of lessons with drummer Tyshawn Sorey. Nate's quartet focused on the music of John Coltrane's quartet. Not just a tribute band, it seeks to extend Coltrane's legacy into the modern era by performing Nate's own original compositions and using each member's improvisational style as a way of creating new sounds that are just as raw as the Coltrane recordings Nate admired from the 60's.
In the summer of 2014, Nate moved to Baltimore to continue his study with Gary Thomas. Currently pursuing a Graduate Performance Diploma at the Peabody Conservatory on a full scholarship, he doesn't let his schooling interfere with performing. Over the past two years, he has been performing regularly in not only Baltimore, but New York City, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and even occasionally back in Austin where it all began, at the Elephant Room. Nate has had the opportunity to share the stage with Alex Norris, Jean Michel Pilc, Bill Goodwin, Carlo De Rosa, Paul Bollenback, and others.
The attitude of the Baltimore music scene fit Nate's playing style like a glove, and now you might find him either hosting his bi-weekly jazz jam session at An Die Musik Live in Mt. Vernon, playing a concert with the Peabody Faculty at the Conservatory, improvising over some standards at a dive bar in Fells Point, or teaching music to at-risk youth in west baltimore as part of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's Orchkids program. Nate's debut album, "PROGRESSIVE OVERLOAD" is due out in 2016.
From Austin, he moved to New Jersey, where he studied with the likes of Harold Mabern, Vincent Herring, Mulgrew Miller, and Bill Mobley. After finishing his degree at William Paterson, he moved to Brooklyn where his work as a composer and performer began to blossom. While studying independently with Mark Shim and Gary Thomas, two living titans of the tenor saxophone, he started his band "Mobiustrip" in 2013, and then the "Nate Hook Quartet" in early 2014. "Mobistrip" was heavily influenced by Gary Thomas' Harmonic approach as well as the rhythmic structures Nate encountered both in the NYC jazz scene and in a series of lessons with drummer Tyshawn Sorey. Nate's quartet focused on the music of John Coltrane's quartet. Not just a tribute band, it seeks to extend Coltrane's legacy into the modern era by performing Nate's own original compositions and using each member's improvisational style as a way of creating new sounds that are just as raw as the Coltrane recordings Nate admired from the 60's.
In the summer of 2014, Nate moved to Baltimore to continue his study with Gary Thomas. Currently pursuing a Graduate Performance Diploma at the Peabody Conservatory on a full scholarship, he doesn't let his schooling interfere with performing. Over the past two years, he has been performing regularly in not only Baltimore, but New York City, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and even occasionally back in Austin where it all began, at the Elephant Room. Nate has had the opportunity to share the stage with Alex Norris, Jean Michel Pilc, Bill Goodwin, Carlo De Rosa, Paul Bollenback, and others.
The attitude of the Baltimore music scene fit Nate's playing style like a glove, and now you might find him either hosting his bi-weekly jazz jam session at An Die Musik Live in Mt. Vernon, playing a concert with the Peabody Faculty at the Conservatory, improvising over some standards at a dive bar in Fells Point, or teaching music to at-risk youth in west baltimore as part of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's Orchkids program. Nate's debut album, "PROGRESSIVE OVERLOAD" is due out in 2016.
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