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Sugar Hill Nights: Bertha Hope Quintet
May 25 @ 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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Thursday, May 25th, 2023
5:30pm – 8:00pm
Presented by the Jazz Foundation of America, supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and by the Howard Gilman Foundation.
One of jazz’s living legends, pianist/composer Bertha Hope has toured globally with artists like Nat Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie and Eddie Henderson, while being a respected educator and bandleader in her own right, with several albums under her leadership. In 2018 she won the National Jazz Museum in Harlem’s Legends of Jazz Award. In 2023 she is celebrating the underappreciated songbook of her late husband, pianist / composer Elmo Hope, in his centennial year.
