Hookfoot were a band that originated in Portsmouth and Gosport and were active from 1970 to 1974.

Formed by Guitarist Caleb Quaye born 9 October 1948, who lived in Portsmouth, He played guitar and also played piano and sung formed the band. Ian Duck born in Gosport vocals, guitars and harmonica, Roger Pope drums, and David Glover bass were the other members of the Hookfoot. They often helped with backing for Elton John, on many of their DJM sessions. Fred Gandy bass player from Bluesology took over from David Glover.
Other occasional members of the band were:
Bob Kulick guitar, vocals,
Mick Grabham bass,
Peter Ross harmonica, vocals.

Albums
1969 A Piece of Pye
1971 Hookfoot
1972 Good Times A'Comin'
1973 Communication
1974 Roaring
1975 Headlines
2005 Live in Memphis
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Hookfoot on Radio and Television

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Cab Kaye

Caleb's father, known as Cab Kaye, although born in London he was brought up in Portsmouth. His real name was Augustus NiiLante Kwamlah Quaye, As a 14 year old he auditioned for bandleader Billy Cotton and became resident. In the 1940's and 50's he worked with Ronnie Scott and John Dankworth. In 1958 he appeared on the 6-5 Special TV programn. He died in Amsterdam on 13 March 2000 from cancer. Caleb now lives in Calfornia USA.
Cabel's father was Nii-lante Augustus Kwamlah Quaye, better known as Cab Kaye (3 September 1921, London – 13 March 2000, Amsterdam), was an English jazz singer, pianist, band leader, entertainer, drummer, guitarist and songwriter of Ghanaian and Dutch descent was brought up in Portsmouth. . He was influenced by Billie Holiday and often accompanied himself on piano[clarify] with a graceful rhythmic style. He combined blues, bebop, stride and scat with the music of his African and Ghanaian musical heritage.

He had three marriages; first in 1939 to Theresa Austin, a jazz singer. Cab and Theresa often performed together. The couple had two daughters, Terri Quaye (born 8 November 1940, Bodmin), Tanya Quaye and a son, Caleb Quaye (born 1948, London). Cab met his second wife, a Nigerian named Evelyn, in the 1960s and together, they moved back to England. After a brief affair in 1973 with Sharon McGowan, he had a son, Finley Quaye (born 25 March 1974, Edinburgh). Three generations – grandfather Caleb Jonas Quaye (Ernest Mope Desmond) band leader, pianist, and percussionist and organist. Kaye's great-grandfather was an Asafo warrior drummer. Kwamlah Quaye (Cab Kaye) and youngest son Finley Quaye – were all musicians.

Cab's third wife, Jeannette, was Dutch. After marrying, he decided to settle in the Netherlands and became a Dutch citizen. When Cab Kaye was four months old, his father was killed in a railway accident on 27 January 1922. Kaye's mother was also killed when her house in Portsmouth was the only house on her street to be hit by a bomb. In the 1990s, Kaye was diagnosed with mouth floor cancer with the result that he lost the ability to speak. Until his death at the age of 78 (13 March 2000) in the Dapperbuurt, in Amsterdam, where he was cremated. Cab Kaye's motto was: "Truth is stranger than f(r)iction (excuse my diction, I walk with a lisp)."
Kaye's father, Caleb Quaye (b. Ghana, 1895 - 1922), performed under the name Ernest Mope Desmond with the Five Musical Dragons, in which Arthur Briggs, Sidney Bechet, and George "Bobo" Hines played. Kaye worked as an assistant to Billy Cotton from age 14, and sang with this group on record in 1936. He started on drums the following year, and played with Ken "Snakehips" Johnson for a time before working as a merchant marine. His ship was torpedoed in the Pacific Ocean in 1942; he was not injured and was rescued by airplane, but the plane crashed and he was hospitalized in New York City as a result. He sang with Harry Parry, then formed a group briefly in 1943 which included Ronnie Scott among its members.
Kaye played with Jiver Hutchinson's All-Coloured Band on troop tours in 1946-47, then with Ted Heath (1947), Tito Burns (1948). He led his own bands from 1948, including the Ministers of Swing, in which Scott, Denis Rose, and Johnny Dankworth played. Other bands he led include The Cabinettes (with Ronnie Ball) and his own All-Coloured Band with Dave Wilkins and Sam Walker.
Early in the 1950s Kaye accompanied Don Byas in Paris; he recorded copiously as a leader in the 1950s. He made an appearance in the 1953 film Blood Orange and 1958 he appeared on the 6-5 Special TV programn. In 1960, he recorded in London with Humphrey Lyttelton's ensemble. Soon after this he worked for the Ghanaian embassy in London, then in Accra and Lagos early in the 1970s. Moving to Amsterdam in the 1980s, he opened his own club, Cab's Jazz Piano Bar.
He was born into a musical family; his father was a musician, band leader, pianist, and percussionist and his grandfather was an organist. Kaye's great-grandfather was an Asafo warrior drummer.

Cab Kaye on Radio and Television

Known local performances