Hazel Scott, a piano prodigy and the first Black American to host a nationally syndicated TV show, “was Colin Kaepernick before Colin Kaepernick.”
Her efforts to clear her name were futile. Appearing on the blacklist made someone guilty by default in that era, and no amount of effort to reason with the committee could prove otherwise. By the end of the year, her show would be canceled. Bookings for live performances dried up.
The Duke Ellington band came to dinner. Billie Holiday flew in for Thanksgiving. Powell recalls Quincy Jones playing checkers with him on the floor. For vacation, they went to the beach in Cannes with Lena Horne and Count Basie.
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