Hazel Scott, Karen Chilton
Hazel Scott, Karen Chilton
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Hazel Scott
Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist

Author: Karen Chilton

Narrator: Karen Chilton

Unabridged: 9 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/19/2009


Synopsis

The acclaimed coauthor of I Wish You Love, Karen Chilton explores the life of legendary jazz performer and civil rights activist Hazel Scott. From her birthplace in Trinidad to the lively streets of Harlem and beyond in the 1940s and '50s, Scott created a legacy of achievement that resounds to this day.

About Karen Chilton

Karen Chilton is a multi-talented author, actor, and audiobook narrator, as well as a freelance writer, script writer, and librettist. She wrote the biography Hazel Scott about the trailblazing jazz pianist and coauthored I Wish You Love with legendary jazz vocalist Gloria Lynne. Her acting credits include It's Kind of a Funny Story and Half Nelson. She won a New Professional Theatre Writers award for her play Convergence and an Audiofile Golden Earphones Award for her narration of Karolyn Smardz Frost's I've Got a Home in Glory Land. She has also narrated Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Jennifer Berry Hawes' Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Barry on September 09, 2018

Hazel Scott was a pioneering jazz and classical pianist, vocalist, recording and concert artist and civil rights spearhead starting in the late 1930's and early 1940's. At a time when most audiences were still segregated, she insisted and had it written in her contracts that she wouldn't perform unl......more

Goodreads review by Beverly on September 14, 2010

This was a wonderful surprise read for me. I heard about the book while watching one of the HBF panels where Karen Chilton discussed the book. It turns out that my liibrary had so I requested it. It was a suprise read in many ways - biography/memoir is not my fav genre and when reading non-fiction boo......more

Goodreads review by Derrick on April 10, 2023

Wow, what a legacy Ms. Scott leaves behind. Although heralded in a very covert way on a historic level, her work as a pianist and activist, just two of the many hats she wore, showed what the human spirit, in all its resilience and intrinsic benevolence can become. I also lament the ill-treatment sh......more

Goodreads review by Caleb on February 13, 2018

Well organized and engaging. Since it was a University of Michigan Press publication, I thought it was going to be more academic in style, but this is a biography written in a popular style with little attention given to analysis of her music or recordings. I was also annoyed by the lack of dates; I......more

Goodreads review by Sean on January 17, 2021

A great read about a truly incredible life. The rise and fall of one of Jazz's brightest stars, nearly forgotten. Book contains a casting call of mid century jazz titans, fascinating tales both Harlem and abroad, politics, civil rights, and heartbreak. Some sections are a bit dry and info dumpy, but......more