Bertha Hope-Booker | |
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Birth name | Bertha Rosemond |
Born |
Los Angeles, California, US |
November 8, 1936
Genres | Jazz |
Occupation(s) | Musician, band leader |
Instruments | Piano |
Associated acts | Walter Booker, Elmo Hope, Jazzberry Jam |
Bertha Hope-Booker (née Rosemond, born November 8, 1936 in Los Angeles, California) is an American jazz pianist and jazz educator. She is the widow of fellow pianist Elmo Hope, with whom she collaborated. She has toured Europe and Japan and played with a diverse group of artists. In the 1990s she had her first CDs as a leader and additionally worked with her later husband, bassist Walter Booker.
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Hope's biography on the History Makers Project