Terrance McKnight -Black History Month 2011

McKnight holds a B.A. from Morehouse College and toured with the College Glee Club as an accompanist and soloist. He also earned an M.A. in Music from Georgia State University, where he performed with the 20th Century Chamber Ensemble.

Complete audio of this piece will be available on WQXR.org after February 28th.

http://www.wnyc.org/popup_player/

Still Swinging, Still Classic: A Musical Biography of Pioneering Pianist Hazel Scott

Mini Biography

Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, classical and jazz musician Hazel Scott became one of America's premier pianists of her time. Born on June 11, 1920, this child prodigy first started tickling the ivories at age 3 under the guidance of her mother. She moved with her family to the U.S. in 1924 where she started performing in New York City and receiving scholarships to study classical music at the Juilliard School of Music -- all of this by age 8. Her mentors in jazz technique were Art Tatum and Teddy Wilson.

Mary Lou Williams, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie    Cafe Society: Billie Holiday first sang "Strange Fruit" there

At the end of 1938, Barney Josephson, a former shoe salesman, opened what would become one of the most legendary nightspots in jazz history. New York City’s first integrated nightclub, Cafe Society quickly became a gathering place for artists, intellectuals, left-wing political figures, jazz lovers, and, perhaps inevitably, the very Manhattan sophisticates it meant to mock with its satirical murals and ill-dressed doormen.

I'm Gonna Lock My Heart and Throw Away the Key

Billie Holiday/Frankie Newton — Rare Live Cuts: Cafe Society (Document, 1997)

 

Strange Fruit

Billie Holiday —

 

Prelude in C Sharp Minor

Hazel Scott — 1939-1945 (Chronological Classics, 2003)

 

Cafe Society Rag

Joe Turner/Pete Johnson/Albert Ammons/Meade Lux Lewis — Boogie Woogie and Blues Piano

 

Q&A with Karen Chilton, author of

Pianist, from Café Society to Hollywood to HUAC

Podcast page at:

http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=197245

Cafe Society: The Wrong Place For The Right People

http://www.press.umich.edu/podcasts/index.jspHazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz

Black History Month 2011

http://www.wqxr.org/clusters/2011/feb/01/black-history-month-2011/