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Luck's In My Corner: The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page
Luck's In My Corner The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page Author:Todd Bryant Weeks Hot Lips Page was a seminal figure in the history of jazz trumpet. After making his name as the top trumpeter in Kansas City in the middle 1930s, he moved to New York City and performed in Harlem and on 52nd Street, headlining at the Apollo Theater and in Greenwich Village. He was a star trumpet soloist with Artie Shaw's Orchestra in 1941. He re... more »corded with Billie Holiday and Pearl Bailey and made many early TV appearances in the 1950s. Perhaps most significantly, Page was also one of the greatest blues players of his generation. Dizzy Gillespie may have said it best, "When it comes to the blues, don't mess with Lips, nobody.not Louis, not Roy, not me."« less