On October 2, 1981, Hazel Scott died of cancer at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. She was 61 years old. She is buried at Flushing Cemetery in Queens, New York, near other musicians including Louis Armstrong, Johnny Hodges, and Dizzy Gillespie (who died in 1993). [33]

Oct 3, 1981 · Hazel Scott, the pianist and singer who was once married to the late Adam Clayton Powell Jr., died of cancer yesterday at Mount Sinai Medical Center. She was 61 years old.

Jun 18, 2020 · Hazel Scott died of cancer in 1981 at only 61 years old, survived by her son Adam Clayton Powell III. She was buried at Flushing Cemetery in Queens, New York, near other jazz greats including trumpeters Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie.

Oct 3, 1981 · NEW YORK -- Hazel Dorothy Scott, the pianist and former wife of the late Adam Clayton Powell Jr. who delighted jazz aficionados with her nightclub appearances, died Friday in Manhattan at the...

Oct 3, 1981 · NEW YORK -- Hazel Dorothy Scott, 61, a leading jazz pianist and singer and former wife of the late congressman from Harlem, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., died of cancer Friday at Mount Sinai...

Hazel Scott died of cancer in 1981 at 61 years of age. 1 “Hazel Scott Barred in D.C.,” October 6, 1945, 1. 2 “Hazel Scott Attorneys Score in Initial Round,” Spokane Daily Chronicle, April 17, 1950. 3 Hazel Scott Remembers, dir. Peter Pontillo, 1980 (https://www.nypl.org/research/research-catalog/bib/b11252914).

Oct 12, 2021 · Jazz was no longer center stage, and neither was Hazel Scott. She died in 1981 of pancreatic cancer in a New York hospital. She took her last breath as Dizzy Gillespie, a friend for decades, serenaded her on a muted trumpet.

Jan 19, 2007 · Hazel Scott died on October 2, 1981, at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. She was 61.

In 1981, Hazel Scott died of pancreatic cancer. She was only 61 years old and survived by her son, Adam Clayton Powell III. She was buried in Flushing Cemetery in Queens, New York, near other musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Johnny Hodges, and Dizzy Gillespie.

Hazel Scott Death. Hazel passed away on October 2, 1981 at the age of 61 in Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York City, New York. Hazel's cause of death was cancer.