Pioneering jazz pianist-singer Nat King Cole is best known for classics such as “Mona Lisa” and “The Christmas Song” as well as for hosting his own television show on NBC in 1956. However, it was a ...

Before her dazzling career dropped out from under her, Hazel Scott blew up piano jazz and redefined what it meant to be a Black artist and a Black woman in America. You’ve probably never heard of her ...

Discover how Hazel Scott started jazzing the classics. At just 15 years old, Hazel Scott was playing as an intermission pianist at 52nd Street for headliner Frances Faye. Because the club didn't want ...

Years ago, I came across a viral video clip of a strikingly regal, savant-like woman in a white gown, playing two pianos. The clip was from the 1943 film The Heat’s On and the pianist was Hazel Scott.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Sounds of Hazel" will be have its regional premiere as part of a program performed by the Dance Theatre of Harlem May 4 at The ...

We will never see another Hazel Scott. Though you may not have heard that name until right now, you can meet her any time you tune into the public television series “American Masters: The ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Hazel-Scotts-Lifetime-of-High-Notes.html In a ...

PBS’s major offering for both Black History Month and Women’s History Month is an excellent documentary on a pianist and occasional singer and composer, Hazel Scott. It is exceptionally well-titled, ...

She was called the “Darling of Café Society” back in 1939 when New York City was alive with the sounds of swing. A sexy siren sitting bare-shouldered at the piano, Hazel Scott captivated audiences ...

Poet and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib writes about Hazel Scott’s forgotten legacy, revealing how “the immense love she had for her people” came at a great cost. Who, at least on this moment, seems ...

Two shapely brown shoulders and a round, roguish face, framed in a triangle of white light, showed above the grand piano’s shining ebony. From the keyboard Chopin’s Minute Waltz flowed fleetly, ...

Jazz and classical pianist and singer Hazel Scott (1920-81) moved with her mother from Trinidad to Harlem when she was 4. It wasn't long before she was making herself heard. A piano prodigy, she ...