Walter Page(1900-1957)

Violinist, pianist, arranger, composer and band leader (Walter Page's Blue Devils) of the 1920s and early 1930s. Active primarily in Kansas City and, briefly, in New York. Page was at various times a member of the Count Basie and His Orchestra, notably between 1935 and the late 1940s. He later freelanced with smaller jazz groups, before dying of pneumonia in December 1957.