A virtuosa pianista de jazz, música classica e cantora Hazel Scott nasceu no 11 de junho de 1920 em Porto Principe, Trinidad Tobago mas foi criada em Nova York desde os quatro anos de idade. Começou a tocar piano na tenra idade e mais tarde estudou na Juilliard School. Várias vezes se apresentou no Carnegie Hall.
Teve rápida passagem pelo cinema nos filmes "Something to Shout About" I Dood It, Brodway Rhythm,The Heat's On e Rhapsody in Blue.
Ficou famosa por inprovisar tocando musicas clásicas, que ela misturava com jazz (ver video) e também por tocar Boogie-woogie, blues e baladas. Mas, seu maior feito, foi ter-se tornada a primeira negra a ter seu próprio show de televisão, ainda que por alguns meses, "The Hazel Scott Show" numa época de grande repressão racial, em 1950.
Devido a sua verbalização pública contra o McCarthyismo e a segregração racial, o show foi cancelado e ela ainda foi acusada de ser simpatizante do comunismo.
O seu album "Relazed Piano Mood" na companhia de contra-baixista Charles Mingus e o baterista Max Roach, foi o mais bem recebido pela publico e critica especializada.
Foi casada, mãe de um filho e faleceu New York City em 1981.
Clique para vê-la solando maravilhosamente "Taking a Chance with Love".
The jazz and classical pianist and singer Hazel Dorothy Scott was born june 11th 1920 in Port of Spain,Trinidad and Topbago and raised in New York City from the age of four. She performed extensively on piano as a child, then trained at the Juilliard School. She appeared in the production Priorities of 1942 and performed numerous times at the famed Carnegie Hall.
Her motion picture career included the films Something To Shout About, I Dood It, Broadway Rhythm, The Heat's On, and Rhapsody in Blue.
She was known for improvising on classical themes and also played boogie-woogie, blues, and ballads. She was the first woman of color to have her own television show, The Hazel Scott Show, which premiered on the DuMont Television Network on July 3, 1950. However, due to her public opposiiton to McCarthyism and racial segregation, the show was canceled in 1950 when she was accused of being a communist sympathizer; the final broadcast was September 29, 1950.
Her album "Relaxed Piano Mood" on the Debut Record label with Charles Mingus and Max Roach, is the album most highly regarded by critics to date.
Hazel was married to U.S. Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. from 1945 to 1956, by whom she had one child before their divorce,Adam Clayton Powell III..
She died at the age of 61 on October 2, 1981 in New York City.
Click to watch a mini-documentary on her.
Tradução - Humberto Amorim
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