At just 15, Hazel Scott started “jazzing” or “swinging” the classics by playing classic songs at an up-tempo and with improvisation. "The Disappearance of Miss Scott” is now streaming on PBS and the PBS app. https://ow.ly/GuKR50V8ELq | American Masters

The great Hazel Scott (June 11, 1920 – October 2, 1981) Trinidad-born American jazz and classical pianist and singer, She was not only a gifted pianist and singer – a child prodigy who at only eight-years-old was given a scholarship from the Julliard School of Music to be privately tutored – Scott was also an outspoken critic of racial discrimination and segregation, She used her influence to improve the representation of Black Americans in film. Here, she is performing “Taking a Chance on Love”

JazzCorner celebrated Black History Month. Jazz pianist and singer Hazel Scott was not only the first African-American woman to host her own television show, but she also bravely stood up to the House Un-American Activities Committee and the Hollywood studio machine. The gifted and popular performer dazzled audiences in the U.S. and abroad with her jazzy renditions of classical works. Hazel Dorothy Scott was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad on June 11, 1920. She moved with her mother and grandmot

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