Page Cavanaugh

Page Cavanaugh ( born January 26, 1922 in Cherokee, Kansas, † December 19, 2008 in Los Angeles ) was an American jazz and pop pianist.

Page Cavanaugh began at the age of nine, playing the piano and played in the band in 1938 by Ernie Williamson before he moved to Los Angeles and worked in the band of Bobby Sherwood ..

During his military service in World War II, he met the guitarist Al Viola and bassist Lloyd Pratt, with whom he formed a trio. After the war they were in the style of the popular Nat King Cole Trio and had in the late 1940s a number of Hiterfolgen as " The Three Bears ", " Walkin ' My Baby Back Home" and " All of Me ". The trio had also appeared in the films A Song Is Born, Big City, Lullaby of Broadway ( with Doris Day ) and Romance on the High Seas, Doris Days first film in 1948. Besides they looked at Frank Sinatra's radio program Songs by Sinatra and in the Jack Paar Show with. Until the 1990s, Cavanaugh met in Los Angeles on in nightclubs, both for several years in a trio with viola as well as in septet, the Page 7 Cavanaugh took during his career also recorded several albums for MGM, Capitol, RCA and Star Line up; 2006 saw the last album of his trio, Return to Elegance .. He died in late 2008 of kidney failure.