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354: 498: 462:'s run for City Council, arguing that Davis was supported by socialists, a group that "has hated Communists longer and more fiercely than any other." She also expressed her frustrations with the mass amount of false accusations of entertainers and offered the suggestion to use "democratic methods to immediately eliminate a good many irresponsible charges." Scott concluded her statement to the HUAC with a request that entertainers be not already "covered with the mud of slander and the filth of scandal" when proving their loyalty to the United States. 33: 221: 292:, Scott was one of the first black women to gain respectable roles in major Hollywood pictures. She refused to take roles in Hollywood playing a "singing maid", and she turned down the first four roles she was offered for this reason. When she began performing in Hollywood films, she insisted on having final cut privileges when it came to her appearance. She performed as herself in the films 285:, to establish a venue where artists of all races and ethnicities could perform, from 1939 to 1943, she was a leading attraction at both the downtown and uptown branches of Café Society. Her performances created national prestige for the practice of "swinging the classics". By 1945, Scott was earning $ 75,000 ($ 1,269,316 today) a year. 670:
Scott was renowned as a virtuosic jazz pianist, in addition to her successes in dramatic acting and classical music. She also used her status as one of the best-known African-American entertainers of her generation to shine a spotlight on issues of racial injustice and civil rights. Scott recorded as
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musical series. Scott's short-lived television show "provided a glimmer of hope for African American viewers" during a time of continued racial bias in the broadcasting industry and economic hardships for jazz musicians in general. Scott remained publicly opposed to
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By now, Scott could play anything she heard on the piano. With her mother's guidance and training, she mastered advanced piano techniques and was labeled a child prodigy. When Scott was eight years old, she began studying with Professor Paul Wagner of the
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reported that "Hazel Scott has a neat little show in this modest package," its "most engaging element" being Scott herself. The show became so popular, it soon ran three times a week. On the show, Scott performed with the jazz musicians
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label, with Mingus and Roach, is generally her work most highly regarded by critics today. Her unique swinging style and fusion of jazz and classical influences kept her in demand for performances through the very end of her life.
334:(Warner Bros, 1945). She appeared in five Hollywood films in all, always insisting on the credit line "Miss Hazel Scott as Herself", and wearing her own clothes and jewelry to protect her image. Her final break with 606:" for an International Education Year Award to James L. Olivero, who remembered Louis Gregory, presented by Daniel Jordan of the Bahá'ís on behalf of the US National Spiritual Assembly. Her singing was praised by 594:'s career re-announcement in late 1968, she was introduced by Damone to the crowd recalling how he was an usher for her show. This might have been the November 1942 performance by Scott and others at the 540:
Scott continued to perform occasionally in nightclubs, while also appearing on daytime television, until the year of her death. She made her television acting debut in 1973, on the ABC daytime soap opera
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restaurant when a waitress refused to serve Scott and her traveling companion, Mrs. Eunice Wolfe, because "they were Negroes". Scott's victory helped African Americans challenge racial discrimination in
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had led to federal legislation making racial segregation in housing and public accommodations illegal and enforcing the protection of voting rights of all citizens in addition to other social advances.
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Testimony of Hazel Scott Powell: hearing before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress, second session, September 22, 1950
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On January 19, 1961, Scott married Ezio Bedin, a Swiss-Italian comedian who was 15 years her junior; they divorced a few years later, before her return to the US.
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because she refused to perform when she discovered that black and white patrons were seated separately. "Why would anyone come to hear me, a Negro," she told
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How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda
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involved "a costume which she felt stereotyped blacks". In the 1940s, in addition to her film appearances, she was featured in Café Society's
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Taubman, E. 1943. "Swing feature Soviet Benefit: Café Society assures at least a thousand watches for the Russian Fighting Forces,"
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How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States
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When women invented television: the untold story of the female powerhouses who pioneered the way we watch today
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To evade political fallout in the United States, Scott moved to Paris in 1957. She appeared in the French film
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singer throughout the 1930s and 1940s. In 1950, she became the first black American to host her own TV show,
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McGee, Kristin. "Swinging the Classics: Hazel Scott and Hollywood's Musical-Racial Matrix," in
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Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Café Society to Hollywood to HUAC
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Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist from Cafe Society to Hollywood to HUAC
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She was the first person of African descent to have their own television show in America,
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in June 1950. In an effort to clear her name, Scott voluntarily appeared before the
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Piano Music by Black Women Composers : a Catalog of Solo and Ensemble Works
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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities. (1951).
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By the age of 16, Hazel Scott regularly performed for radio programs for the
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Myter-Spencer, D.: "Hazel Scott, Jazz Pianist: Boogie-woogie and Beyond,"
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Piano Music by Black Women Composers: A Catalog of Solo and Ensemble Works
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songs, and classical music in various nightclubs. Thanks to the vision of
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Red Channels: A Report on Communist Influence in Radio and Television
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venues when she was on tour. She was once escorted from the city of
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Hot From Harlem: Profiles in Classic African-American Entertainment
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and the double-bass player Martin Rivera, and another trio with
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Some Liked it Hot: Jazz Women in Film and Television, 1928–1959
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Mack, Dwayne (Spring 2006). "Hazel Scott: A Career Curtailed".
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Some Liked it Hot: Jazz Women in Film and Television, 1929–1959
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and others, as part of a ship-and-shore conference of Bahá'ís.
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Swinging the Classics: Piano Solos in Swing Style with Drums
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She did not return to the US until 1967. By this time, the
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magazine, "and refuse to sit beside someone just like me?"
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YouTube Playlist: Hazel Scott – Piano Solos, Vol. 2 (1942)
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Hazel Scott: A Woman, a Piano, and a Commitment to Justice
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cited Scott as her inspiration for her performance at the
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Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television
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Mack, Dwayne (2006). "Hazel Scott: A Career Curtailed".
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while still at school. She also performed on the radio.
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Taubman, E. 1941. "Café Music Heard at Carnegie Hall",
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Magazine, February 3, 1961. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
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Hearing Before the Committee on Un-American Activities
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In 1949, Scott brought a suit against the owners of a
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Episode 101: "The Promise (Biography of Hazel Scott)"
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in the television industry, Scott's name appeared in
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debuted a new ballet about the life of Hazel Scott.
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May 16, 1971. p. 40 261:Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Scott performed 1553: 1529: 766:Her Second Album of Piano Solos with Drums Acc. 2096:20th-century Trinidad and Tobago women singers 1524: 1522: 1200: 1641:. No. 477. December 1980. pp. 8, 10 1431:"Milestones: Feb. 3, 1961: Marriage Revealed" 1402:Alexander, Michael Scott (January 21, 2021). 1028: 945: 943: 941: 1743:"Hazel Scott: Jazz star and barrier breaker" 1712: 1710: 1355:. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1951. 1137: 392: 1769:, March 20, 2021. Retrieved April 17, 2021. 1585: 1519: 1472: 1470: 979: 650:, New York, near other musicians including 527: 986:. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. pp.  938: 914: 912: 910: 908: 906: 724:Hazel Scott: Jazz star and barrier breaker 31: 1923: 1716: 1707: 1401: 143:, receiving scholarships to study at the 1467: 1446: 1265:West, Hollie I. 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Index


Port of Spain
New York City
The Hazel Scott Show
Trinidadian
jazz
classical
racial discrimination
segregation
Port of Spain
musical prodigy
Juilliard School
Café Society
jazz
The Hazel Scott Show
House Un-American Activities Committee
McCarthyism
Paris
Port of Spain
Trinidad and Tobago
Liverpool, England
Trinidad
Harlem
Juilliard School of Music

Mutual Broadcasting System
Roseland Dance Hall
Count Basie Orchestra
Cotton Club Revue of 1938
Sing Out the News

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