Connee Boswell, Hazel Scott--Stormy Weather, Sunny Side of the Street

[@jeanie5074]

Stormy weather🎶🎤 She was one of Ms. Ella’s favourite singer❤😢

[@EllaRodgers78s]

Two legends doing a song together! This is so cool

[@illbebad]

Love this! You can actually see her leg moving a bit. Didn't know she could move them at all, glad she could!

[@aeichler]

+illbebad I saw her do a benefit performance in her later years, which she did from the piano, and I was surprised to her moving her feet on the pedals. When I spoke to her later, in her wheelchair, she was full of energy and bounce around in the chair as she spoke.

[@davidreidenberg9941]

illbebad she could play the piano. Had to be able to move her right foot.

[@iluvmusicals21]

Connee sang from a wheelchair, but it wasn't common knowledge. She was a prime inspiration for Ella Fitzgerald.

[@craigbrowning9448]

Chick Webb was a big Connee Boswell fan.

[@craigbrowning9448]

Hazel Scott had a 15 Minute Weekly TV series on the DuMont Network, before NBC picked up Nat King Cole, The McCarthy Red Scare Destroyed it.

[@craigbrowning9448]

Hazel Scott documentary... kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZC6e2eGpd2Kl6c

[@direfranchement]

Connee Boswell was obviously influenced by the sound of the Great Blues Women...and seeing as part of her childhood was spent in New Orleans, I daresay Bessie Smith in particular.

[@An_Cat_Dubh]

Mamie Smith was Connee's favorite as a teenager.

[@hebneh]

Connee Boswell couldn't walk, so here she's been placed on some kind of support / tall chair with an oversized dress to hide it.