Episode 101 (Promise)
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Notes

• I first heard about Hazel Scott while reading Rad American Women from A to Z) to my daughter. It's a wonderful book. You should buy it for any kid in your life.

• I read a lot about Hazel, but Karen Chilton's biography, Hazel Scott: A Pioneering Jazz Pianist from Cafe Society to HUAC) was essential.

Music

• Starts with Christope Beck and DeadMono's theme to Charlie Countryman).

• Prelude for HS by Hakon Stene.

• Tezeta (Nostalgia) from Malatu Astatke, from Ethiopiques vol. 4, one of my favorite pieces of music in the world.

• Marian Lapansky plays Camille Saint-Saens "Le Sygne."

• Which fights with Piero Umiliani's Danza Primitiva.

• Warren Ellis rounds it out with his Lale's Theme from his terrific score to Mustang (which you should totally see).

• The Hazel Scott pieces can be found here) and here).