Hazel Scott was an enormously talented jazz and classical pianist whose popularity began to soar in the early 1940s. She appeared regularly at New York's Cafe Society in 1941, performed at Carnegie Hall in 1943, went to Hollywood, married Congressman Adam Clayton Powell in 1945 and was one of the first Black women to have her own TV show in 1950. But la…
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