Elmo Hope Transcriptions

Birth name: Elmo Hope or St. Elmo Sylvester Hope
Born: June 27, 1923, New York City, New York, U.S.
Died: May 19, 1967 (aged 43), New York City, New York

Elmo Hope was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, chiefly in the bebop and hard bop genres. He grew up playing and listening to jazz and classical music with Bud Powell, and both were close friends of another influential pianist, Thelonious Monk.