[Dixielandjazz] Page Cavavaugh NY Times Obit

[Stephen G Barbone]

December 25, 2008 - NY Times - by Associated Press
Page Cavanaugh, Leader of Jazz Trio, Dies at 86

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Page Cavanaugh, a jazz pianist and singer whose  
popular trio in the 1940s and 1950s played in motion pictures and on  
Frank Sinatra’s radio show, died on Friday. He was 86.

The cause was kidney failure, said Phil Mallory, a longtime bass  
player for Mr. Cavanaugh.

The Page Cavanaugh Trio was one of the most popular nightclub acts in  
Southern California from the 1940s to the 1990s, performing at Ciro’s,  
the Trocadero, the Captain’s Table, the Money Tree and the Balboa Bay  
Club.

The trio appeared in several films, including “Romance on the High  
Seas” (1948), Doris Day’s first film, as well as “A Song Is Born,”  
“Big City” and “Lullaby of Broadway.”

The Cavanaugh trio also appeared with Sinatra at the Waldorf-Astoria  
and elsewhere and played for NBC Radio’s “Jack Paar Show.”

The Page Cavanaugh Trio’s hit recordings included “The Three Bears”  
and “She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor.”

The latest version of the Page Cavanaugh Trio, which featured Mr.  
Mallory on bass and Jason Lingle on drums, released its CD “Return to  
Elegance” in 2006.

Mr. Cavanaugh, who never married, had no surviving family members.