Perez Jazz Duo Concert Series Presents Bertha Hope

Bertha Hope was a surprise guest at Perez Jazz Presents and she featured some of her late husband’s Elmo Hope’s compositions - Bertha is a jazz master ,and wonderful and gifted person. Although she recorded three piano duets with her husband Elmo Hope in 1961, few knew that Bertha Hope was a talented pianist until her 1992 Minor Music release Between Two Kings. She grew up in California, started studying classical piano when she was three, became interested in jazz through the playing of Bud Powell, and in