Biography
Walter Page's Blue Devils
Members: Count Basie, Eddie Durham, Lester Young, Hot Lips Page, Walter Page, Jimmy Rushing, Abe Bolar, Dan Minor, Lem Johnson, Buster Smith, Alvin Burroughs, Reuben Roddy, James LeGrand, Ted Manning, Reuben Lynch, James Simpson (5), Druie Bess, Charles Washington (3), Thomas Owens (2)
Founded by Walter Page, the band started in Oklahoma City in 1925, and becoming mainstays in Kansas City.Many members of this band moved over to Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra as the 1930's progressed.