Plus, there’s always this Hook.
Jazz hooks…
Thelonious Monk’s “Friday the Thirteenth.”
Sonny Rollins’s “St. Thomas.”
Anybody’s “Louise,” especially Lester Young’s or Lee Konitz’s. (Careful about clicking on that link…you’ll hear the Maurice Chevalier version. Over and over again.)
And…God help me…Weather Report’s “Birdland.”
Great hooks:
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin
Room to Move - John Mayall
Reach Out - The Four Tops
Bass:
The bassline at the beginning of Fugazi’s Waiting Room
The couple of seconds in Paul Simon’s* Call Me Al
Drums:
Opening beats when the Grateful Dead played Beat it on Down the Line
Quick drum fill in Come a Long Way by Michelle Shocked right after the line “I shimmied up Wilkshire light a little silkworm.”