Jazz Musician. He was a pianist and founding member of the popular jazz music group The Page Cavanaugh Trio. He learned to play the piano at the age of ten and was performing with The Ernie Williamson Orchestra by the late 1930s. While serving in the United States Army during World War II, he joined the music group The Three Sergeants and met Al Viola and Lloyd Pratt with whom he would later form The Page Cavanaugh Trio. Among the vocalists they would record with are Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Mel Torme and Johnny Desmond. They appeared in the motion pictures "Jingle, Jangle, Jingle" (1948), "A Song Is Born" (1948), "Romance on the High Seas" (1948) and "Lullaby of Broadway" (1951). He died from kidney failure.
Jazz Musician. He was a pianist and founding member of the popular jazz music group The Page Cavanaugh Trio. He learned to play the piano at the age of ten and was performing with The Ernie Williamson Orchestra by the late 1930s. While serving in the United States Army during World War II, he joined the music group The Three Sergeants and met Al Viola and Lloyd Pratt with whom he would later form The Page Cavanaugh Trio. Among the vocalists they would record with are Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Mel Torme and Johnny Desmond. They appeared in the motion pictures "Jingle, Jangle, Jingle" (1948), "A Song Is Born" (1948), "Romance on the High Seas" (1948) and "Lullaby of Broadway" (1951). He died from kidney failure.
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