Vache, Warren W., Sr.

Crazy Fingers: Claude Hopkins' Life in Jazz

Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution Press, [1992]. Paperback. x, 134 pages. Softcover, fine condition. Narrow black ink line (publisher's remainder mark) across bottom page edges, but otherwise clean and tight. Item #692
ISBN: 156098144X

Biography of the jazz pianist and band leader who was the music director for Josephine Baker's first European tour, and who performed at the Cotton Club and Savoy and Roseland ballrooms in New York. Illustrated with 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.

Price: $7.50