Hope Is Found
Feb 07, 2020
3 minutes
BY ETHAN IVERSON
ertha Rosemond was born in L.A. in 1936 with perfect pitch and a natural talent for the piano. By junior high she was impressed with jazz, listening to Duke Ellington and Bud Powell LPs with her friend Billy Higgins. Eric Dolphy was her pal at City College and brought her by when Max Roach and Clifford Brown rehearsed at his house in 1954. The pianist in that group, Richie Powell, showed her a few jazz voicings. She soon learned Avery Parrish’s
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