Piano player...
Is that really good piano playing? Why haven't we seen mor elf her? Does anyone know her name?
Velvet Voice
Is that really good piano playing? Why haven't we seen mor elf her? Does anyone know her name?
Velvet Voice
She's the legendary Hazel Scott, who made a name for herself jazzing up the classics in nightclubs and on records. She also appeared in The Heat's On, I Dood It, Something to Shout About, and (most famously) Rhapsody in Blue, in which she performs a killer bilingual rendition of "The Man I Love." She also was the second wife of the notorious Harlem congressman and minister Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Scott is often credited as the first African-American woman to host her own television variety series. Her outspokenness and leftist political leanings ran her afoul of both the Hollywood establishment and the House Un-American Activities Committee; she was blacklisted and rarely worked in American showbiz thereafter, dying in 1981. Karen Chilton has written a stunning biography of her entitled Hazel Scott. I highly recommend it.
Helga, I'm not mad at you; I'm mad at the dirt.