Hazel ScottFeaturing: Charles Mingus, Max Roach
Relaxed Piano Moods (LP)
LabelDebut Records, Black SaintGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (record/cover): NM / NM
Edition of 1000 hand-numbered copies.
A Trinidadian-born pianist who was a genuine celebrity by her twenties, appeared in Hollywood films on the condition that she never play a maid, refused to perform for segregated audiences, and was blacklisted after testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Hazel Scott also happened to be a formidable jazz pianist, which the film career tended to obscure. Relaxed Piano Moods was made for Charles Mingus and Max Roach's Debut label with both of them in the trio, and it is exactly what the title says: unhurried, harmonically rich, entirely unconcerned with proving anything.
Debut pressing. A remarkable musician and a remarkable life, documented at the point where she had least to lose.
Release notes
Recorded, New York City January 21, 1955. An edition limited 1000 albums Hype Sticker shows" MITHIC SOUND SERIE" MYTHIC SOUND SERIE IS PRODUCED AD DISTRIBUTED BY THE BLACK SAINT s.a.s. Via V. Monti, 41 20132 MILANO (ITALY)
| A1 | Like Someone In Love | 3:48 | |
| A2 | Peace Of Mind | 3:50 | |
| A3 | Lament | 4:45 | |
| B1 | The Jeep Is Jumpin' | 3:56 | |
| B2 | Git Up From There | 4:27 | |
| B3 | A Foggy Day | 6:05 |
- Charles Mingus
- Bass
- Max Roach
- Drums
- Rudy Van Gelder
- Engineer
- Hazel Scott
- Piano
