Hokkaido Spring – Bertha Hope
The vamp intro of this song sets up a meditative mood, but leads into a lively swinging theme. In addition to our lead sheet, Bertha Hope’s solo piano arrangement is available with an exclusive recording by Glenn Zaleski.
- Recording: Bertha Hope - Between Two Kings
- Recorded on: 1992
- Label: Minor Music (801025)
- Concert Key: G minor
- Style: Swing (medium up)
- Piano - Bertha Hope
- Bass - Walter Booker
- Drums - Jimmy Cobb
Video
- Performed at the jazzleadsheets.com studio by Columbia University students Ben Caine, piano; Kaitlin Kelliher, bass; Cameron Johnson, drums. May 3, 2015.
Solos are on the head form; the intro doesn’t return, but there is a coda based on the beginning of the head, resolving back to Gm13.
Click on the second album cover for Bertha’s solo piano arrangement, recorded by Glenn Zaleski.
- Recording: Glenn Zaleski - Glenn Zaleski Plays Bertha Hope's Solo Piano Arrangements
- Recorded on: December 1, 2012
- Label: jazzleadsheets.com (JLS 1054)
- Concert Key: F
- Style: Swing (medium)
- Piano - Glenn Zaleski
Bertha Hope
born on November 8, 1936
A dynamic force in improvised music, pianist Bertha Hope has been making headway in the jazz scene since the early 1960s. Raised in Los Angeles, Bertha attended Manual Arts High School. She began her jazz journey with pianists Elmo Hope and Richie Powell in her youth. Although she studied piano at Los Angeles Community College, she received her B.A. in early childhood education from Antioch College. She married Elmo in 1960; they moved to New York where Bertha worked as a telephone operator by day and performed at night. Read more...