- In 1978 she was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame.
- Was considered for the iconic role of Sam the piano player in "Casablanca" which ultimately went to Dooley Wilson.
- During her salad days she joined her mother's All-Woman Orchestra and played both piano and trumpet.
- In 1938 at the age of 18 she was the opening act for the famed Cafe Society. Later in the evening Billie Holiday debuted "Strange Fruit".
- First Black performer to host a primetime network television show on the DuMont Network in 1950, "The Hazel Scott Show" (not on IMDb), it aired on WABD. The Hazel Scott Trio on the program featured Hazel Scott, Charles Mingus and Max Roach.
- Her hands were insured by Lloyds of London for $1 million.
- At the age of fifteen she performed with her mother's all-female touring jazz band, the American Creolians.
- After her baby brother died of blood poisoning her father abandoned his family.
- Friends with Dinah Washington.
- Graduated with honors from Wadleigh High School for Girls in Harlem, New York.
- In 1952 she recorded her first album for Capitol Records, "Hazel Scott's Late Show". It was an instrumental tribute to the American composers Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, Jerome Kern & Harold Arlen, George Gershwin and Cole Porter.
- Mother of Adam Clayton Powell III.
- She appeared on Broadway in the 1938-39 revue Sing Out the News which included performers like Philip Loeb who was later blacklisted. She also performed at the 1939 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows.
- During her teens she hosted her own radio show on WOR.
- Father R. Thomas Scott was renowned scholar, her mother Alma Long was a musician.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 714-715. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
- Has two grandchildren.
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