Video of the Week: Whatever Happened to Hazel Scott?

Video of the Week: John Lennon Sings ‘Let It Be’

Video of the Week: Hazel Scott–Taking a Chance On Love

The great Hazel Scott (June 11, 1920 – October 2, 1981) Trinidad-born American jazz and classical pianist and singer, She was not only a gifted pianist and singer – a child prodigy who at only eight-years-old was given a scholarship from the Julliard School of Music to be privately tutored – Scott was also an outspoken critic of racial discrimination and segregation, She used her influence to improve the representation of Black Americans in film.

Here, she is performing “Taking a Chance on Love” in 1943.

Video of the Week: Neil Diamond Reflects in 2011 Irish TV Interview

Video of the Week: Tom Lehrer’s “New Math”

When you’re a mathematician by trade and you moonlight as one of the cleverest songwriters around, you’re uniquely qualified to perform something like Tom Lehrer’s “New Math” which, by our calculations, is enjoyable and confounding in equal parts.

Video of the Week: Percossa’s Boomwhacker Can Can

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