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...Replied Hazel: "You didn...
...stopped a Broadway show, Sing Out the News, with her sultry rendition of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones. But her break came with a chance to fill in for ailing Blues Singer Ida Cox at Barney Josephson's downtown Café Society, a Manhattan Mecca for jazz connoisseurs. Result: Hazel Scott has been entertaining Café Society audiences ever since. Two years ago Showman Josephson opened a Cafe Society Uptown to house her art with greater swank, now finds it packed nightly with Scott fans: socialites, Broadway sophisticates, savants-about-town. Celebrities regard her with reverence, movie stars...
Uptown, Downtown. Hazel got this lucrative bad habit while quite young. Born in Trinidad, she had lived in New York's Harlem most of her life. When she was a sober little girl of 13, she was given free piano lessons by a teacher in the Juilliard School. Her teacher got sick-the lessons stopped. She kept on studying the classics herself, but to relieve boredom, now & then sneaked in a few stray blue-notes and hot syncopations. This became instinctive to the point of a wonderful vice...
...back in Manhattan, Hazel Scott is leading the life she likes best: three appearances nightly; daytime hours in & out of her new stucco house in suburban White Plains, where she sometimes grubs in her Victory garden, more often listens to recordings...
...ambition: to play the classics straight. In five years, she believes, she will be ready for a strictly long-hair Carnegie Hall recital. But no one else thinks for a minute that Hazel Scott could ever play a whole evening of absolutely straight piano...