Hazel Scott & Charles Mingus

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Submitted by webmaster on Wed, 02/10/2010 - 09:39

Hazel Scott & Charles Mingus

Posted by scmm42
January 13, 2007

Video Description.
Hazel Scott performs with [Charles] Mingus and Rudy Nichols on and archival clip from Night Music".

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webmaster
Wed, 10 February, 2010 - 10:54

Her is  an excerpt from Hazel Scott's Wikipedia page

"Hazel Dorothy Scott (June 11, 1920 – October 2, 1981) was a jazz and classical pianist and singer. She was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 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.
 
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 Moods on the Debut Record label with Charles Mingus and Max Roach, is generally the album most highly regarded by critics today.
 
She 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 of pancreatic cancer at the age of 61 on October 2, 1981 at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.[1]"
webmaster
Wed, 10 February, 2010 - 09:53
Selected YouTube video viewer comments from:
 

widowmakor (3 years ago) What a fantastic video! This is what youtube should be about - not ripping off current shows - but sharing lost footage for all

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Brownpride88 (2 years ago) She was beautiful! rip Hazel
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caponsacchi1 (2 years ago) In Hollywood movies she could flirt with the camera and play counterpuntal lines as though 2nd nature. No wonder Roach and Mingus decided to produce her for their record label Debut. When I caught Hazel in Manhattan in the '70s, she was a tired-looking, disenchanted, blase if not sad person. She was house pianist, the chattering crowd was ignoring her, and Hazel didn't seem to care one way or the other. She probably needed the money, after the gov't nailed AC Powell and cut off any alimony.
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keepthemusicplaying0 (1 year ago) Wonderful performance, great artist, thanks for posting :-)
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popllyfe (1 year ago) Marvelous.
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chrisNova777 (1 year ago) amazing
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richarddubuquejr (1 year ago) I just saw her in the movie "Rhapsody in Blue" and had to You Tube her. Thank you for the post. A new talent (to me) to learn about.
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netwitt1 (1 year ago) I saw Hazel smoke a keyboard in "I Dood It" and I couldn't believe anyone could play that fast and soooo cooly. She looked like she was out for a walk in the park. Wow. What a musician!
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hajune (9 months ago) Truly one of the most under rated super stars of the past. she was gifted playing the organ and piano( she got a Juliet schlorship) and well as being a great singer. she was good and she knew she was good, and you knew she was good and she knew that you knew she was good.

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Sqaaak (8 months ago) Do you mean Juilliard?
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lalamama4real (8 months ago) What a beautifully gifted and talented person. Both singing and piano playing. It was sad to read what someone previously had written - that by the 1970's she was playing somewhere being totally ignored! What a shame.

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Sqaaak (8 months ago) Could someone post the date of the date of this videotaping?
(Gotta be in the 50s or very early 60s)
Thank you.

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AnthonyCarelly (8 months ago) 55'

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dahliafully (5 months ago) from a televised performance to raise money for the March of Dimes.

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bazuinwhale (6 months ago) I believe she was the first or 2nd Black woman to have her own television show. Eleanor Collins in Vancouver was about the same time. Then she was smeared by Mc Carthy her show was canceled and it was over ten years before Pearl Baily got a show.

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Tsadik6251 (2 months ago) I love this song. I love her.

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cavemancyborg (4 weeks ago) This is pretty rad. What a beautiful lady. Looks like a kineoscope transfer

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hajune (6 days ago) She was a child prodigy. She received a scholarship at Jullliett. She is highly acclaimed as one of the greatest pianoists ever. She could play classical, jazz, and traditional. One must play classical in a totally different manner.The hand movements are different. Few can do this and still do justice to other forms of music. Is she playing the piano or is the piano playing her? She is totally at one with it. She was a very sexy lady too.Wish there was more tape of her.A true mega talent.

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