Hazel Scott News & Updates

Hazel Scott, a trailblazing entertainer and activist, was silenced. A PBS doc brings her to light

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Feb 21, 2025 • Yahoo

Hazel Scott’s Lifetime of High Notes

She was called the “Darling of Café Society” back in 1939 when New York City was alive with the...

Oct 15, 2009 • Smithsonian Magazine

Hazel Scott went on strike in her most popular film role

Hazel Scott went on strike while shooting "The Heat's On," where she plays two pianos at once. Hazel...

Feb 20, 2025 • PBS

The power and pain of Hazel Scott’s story

Poet and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib writes about Hazel Scott’s forgotten legacy, revealing h...

Mar 07, 2025 • PBS

Photograph of Hazel Scott performing with Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra

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Feb 10, 2025 • insider.si.edu

Photograph of Hazel Scott at age three

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Jun 07, 2025 • insider.si.edu

Column: ‘American Masters’ brings jazz giant Hazel Scott out of the shadows

We will never see another Hazel Scott. Though you may not have heard that name until right now, you ...

Mar 04, 2025 • Chicago Tribune

Hazel Scott, Jazz and Classical Pianist, Performs Liszt

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Aug 25, 2025 • insider.si.edu

Hazel Scott: America’s leading musical experimentalist of the 1930s

In 1928, an eight-year-old Hazel Scott found herself at Juilliard, studying under Professor Oscar Wa...

Aug 30, 2026 • Far Out Magazine

The Disappearance of Hazel Scott director says it's 'gratifying' people now know the Black pioneer

Hazel Scott's story has finally been told in a full-length documentary. The Disappearance of Hazel S...

Aug 29, 2025 • MSN

Hazel Scott albums as co-leader or side person

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Apr 19, 2025 • Jazz