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Author Weeks, Todd Bryant.

Title Luck's in my corner : the life and music of Hot Lips Page / Todd Bryant Weeks
Published New York ; London : Routledge : Taylor & Francis Group, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, music
Contents Texas. Cuero 1900 ; Black Dallas ; Goin' to the territory 1923-1927 ; Texas trumpeter -- Barnstorming. The Blue Devils ; Ya got love 1931 ; With Bennie 1931-1935 ; Kansas City man -- Luck's in my corner. Home to Harlem 1936-1939 ; The street 1939-1941 ; The big time 1941-1945 ; Jumpin' uptown 1945-1949 ; Open the door RIchard 1949-1954
Summary Luck's in My Corner is a comprehensive biography of one of the most compelling jazz musicians of the Swing Era, Oran ""Hot Lips' Page. Page was the greatest of the Kansas City trumpeters, whose crackling, growling solos made him the go-to man during Count Basie's earliest days as a bandleader. Page went on to be a featured trumpeter with Artie Shaw, a star of New York's 52nd street, and a pioneer of the R & B scene of the 1950s. This book presents an in-depth chronology of Page's career, with special attention paid to the development of his trumpet style
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-262), discography (p. 263-313) and index
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Subject Page, Hot Lips, 1908-1954.
SUBJECT Page, Hot Lips, 1908-1954 fast
Page, Hot Lips. swd
Subject Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography
Trumpet players -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians.
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
Jazz musicians
Trumpet players
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781135897635
1135897638
9780203931462
0203931467