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Bertha Hope

Bertha Hope-Booker
Birth name Bertha Rosemond
Born (1936-11-08)November 8, 1936
Los Angeles, California, US
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


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