kat donegan 🇵🇸✊Jun 11, 2025
#art #history: if you've never heard of hazel scott (born 11 june 1920), may i suggest you read my little blurb below these modest scribbles i've done in an attempt to honour her? she was a fucking dynamo.
#illustration #hazelScott #piano #music #trinidad #jazz #civilRights #activism
Show threadkat donegan 🇵🇸✊Jun 11, 2025
not only could she play two steinways simultaneously, but she'd clearly mastered the perfect eyeliner flick. i really don't understand why hazel scott - trinidadian pianist & singer who was born in 1920 - hasn't been as highly esteemed as nina simone. maybe she is. maybe i just don’t hang with the right crowd. but hazel...hazel was stupendous. she was committed to civil rights & even had her own telly programme, 'the hazel scott show'.
#hazelScott #art #drawing #music #jazz #pianist
Show threadkat donegan 🇵🇸✊
it was axed when she appeared before the house un-american activities committee because she'd been a vocal opponent of mccarthyism & of racial segregation. 'to hell with this', she said (or, perhaps, something saltier), & she moved to paris until 1967.
#paris #hazelScott #HUAC #mcCarthyism #illustration
Jun 11, 2025 at 11:27pmWeb
Show threadkat donegan 🇵🇸✊Jun 11, 2025
upon her return to the states, she got into politics in order to ensure equal recognition of black people by the entertainment industry. she carried on making jazz, collaborating with charles mingus & other musical luminaries. hazel only made it to the age of 61, when that bastard, cancer, smote her.
#hazelScott #charlesMingus #jazz #piano #art #politics #activism