Rhoda Scott, Music is Like Breathing
Rina Sherman
HD, 78 min, 2012
VOICES, Meetings with Remarkable People
Rhoda Scott, legendary organist and living legend of the Hammond organ.
Rhoda Scott « the barefoot lady », one of the greatest Hard bop and soul jazz organists. Her technical mastery and virtuosity combined with a perfect knowledge of the sonic possibilities of the instrument make her a living myth of the Hammond B3 organ. Rhoda Scott evokes her childhood as a pastor’s daughter in the USA, learning to play organ in churches, studying with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, playing with the greats: Ray Charles, George Benson, Count Basie or Ella Fitzgerald… her international career in the Saint-Germain jazz clubs and the Olympia in Paris.
