Hazel Scott

Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago

June 11, 1920 - October 2, 1981

Jazz & Classical Pianist, Singer & Actress

16 x 20 regal gold framed piece

First black woman to have her own TV show July 3 1950, pianist, Afro Caribbean born in Trinidad Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Scott performed jazz, blues, ballads, Broadway and boogie-woogie songs, and classical music in various nightclubs. From 1939 to 1943 she was a leading attraction at both the downtown and uptown branches of Café Society (A club that treated black & White customers equally). Her performances created national prestige for the practice of “swinging the classics.” By 1945, Scott was earning $75,000 ($1,043,762 today) a year (Source).