Crazy Fingers: Claude Hopkins' Life in Jazz - Softcover

VACHE WARREN W

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156098144X ISBN 13: 9781560981442

Publisher: Smithsonian, 1992

Synopsis

A biography based on Claude Hopkins' journal chronicles the career of the bandleader and jazz pianist, offering insight into the jazz world from the 1920s to the 1970s

About this title

From Library Journal:

Vache provides a musical biography of African American pianist and bandleader Hopkins (1903-84). Basing his account on Hopkins's unpublished diary and recollections of the pianist's contemporaries, the author recounts the bandleader's education at Howard University and his breakthrough as musical director of Josephine Baker's first European tour. He describes Hopkins's heyday in such New York clubs as the Savoy (1930-31), the Roseland (1932-34), and the Cotton Club (1935); more difficult times during the 1950s and 1960s; and his resurgence during the 1970s. Though seldom placing Hopkins within a historical context, Vache offers a well-written, concise, fast-paced survey of his musical career and includes a useful discography. The book will appeal to big band jazz fans.
- David Szatmary, Univ. of Washington, Seattle
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Smithsonian
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 156098144X
• ISBN 13: 9781560981442
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144