Hazel Scott

Hazel Scott – Always (1979/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 30:58 minutes | 583 MB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Audio Fidelity

Hazel Dorothy Scott (June 11, 1920 – October 2, 1981) was a Trinidad-born American jazz and classical pianist, singer, and actor. She was a critically acclaimed performing artist and an outspoken critic of racial discrimination and segregation. She used her influence to improve the representation of Black Americans in film.
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Hazel Scott – Relaxed Piano Moods (1955/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:48 minutes | 595 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Pianist Hazel Scott was a prodigy who rose to fame in the 1940s, swinging classical compositions, appearing in Hollywood movies, and becoming the first African-American to host a TV show. From the mid-1940s through the mid-1950s she and her husband, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., were a glamorous African-American power couple. But Scott’s independent spirit and her civil-rights activism brought her career-damaging trouble that eventually sent her to Europe and caused her high profile to recede in the last several decades of her life. It’s “To Be Somebody: Hazel Scott”… coming up on this edition of Night Lights.

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