HOPKINS, CLAUDE

HOPKINS, CLAUDE. Jazz pianist (24 August 1903 in Alexandria, Virginia). He studied piano when he was seven years old. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Washington, D.C., at Howard University in Washington (B.A., 1923), and at the Washington Conservatory of Music (director, Harriet Gibbs Marshall). He later studied privately in Paris, France, with the director of the Champs Elysee Symphony. He began his professional career playing jazz in local nightclubs and in the pit orchestra...