Title: Luck's in my corner :
Authors: Weeks, Todd Bryant.
Date: 2008
Publisher: Routledge :
Physical description: xvi, 320 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., music ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: M
Abstract: "Luck's In My Corner: The Lift and Music of Hot Lips Page is a comprehensive biography of one of the most compelling jazz musicians of the Swing Era. Oran "Hot Lips" Page was the greatest of the Kansas City trumpeters, whose powerful, growling horn made him the go-to man on that instrument during Count Basie's earliest days as a leader. Page went on to be a featured soloist with Artie Shaw, a star of New York's 52nd street, and a pioneer of the burgeoning R & B scene of the 1950s." "Luck's In My Corner: The Lift and Music of Hot Lips Page brings this great musician, lost to time, out of the shadows and into the sunlight. Author Todd Bryant Weeks has traced in meticulous detail the path of Page's career, clarifying much that was obscure and questionable, and providing a perceptive musical analysis of his style and technique. He has also placed the man and the music firmly within the context of twentieth-century African-American and mainstream culture. This book includes a new and complete discography by the author and dozens of unpublished photos."--Jacket.
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.
Subject headings (LCSH): Jazz musicians--United States--Biography.; Page, Hot Lips, 1908-1954.; Trumpet players--United States--Biography.