95th birthday of Hazel Scott

(Born 11 June 1920, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago)

Perspicacious pianist, singer, actress and freedom activist whose incomparable affirmation of her African American identity in Hollywood of the 1940s-1950s remains a towering legacy

(Professor Scott: Seminar! [The Hazel Scott Show, summer 1950])

(Hazel Scott Trio, “Foggy day” [personnel: Scott, piano; Charles Mingus, bass; Rudy Nichols, drums; recorded: French Television, 1955])

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