JazzCorner celebrated Black History Month. Jazz pianist and singer Hazel Scott was not only the first African-American woman to host her own television show, but she also bravely stood up to the House Un-American Activities Committee and the Hollywood studio machine. The gifted and popular performer dazzled audiences in the U.S. and abroad with her jazzy renditions of classical works. Hazel Dorothy Scott was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad on June 11, 1920. She moved with her mother and grandmot