• The Oklahoma City Blue Devils was the premier American Southwest territory jazz band in the 1920s. Originally called Billy King's Road Show, it disbanded...
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  • Oklahoma City Blue Devils, a territory jazz band based in Oklahoma The Last of the Blue Devils, a 1979 documentary of Kansas City jazz Belconnen Blue...
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  • at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. The Blue Devils of the title were the Oklahoma City Blue Devils a travelling band of the 1930s founded by bassist...
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    Jo Jones (category Oklahoma City Blue Devils members)
    tap-dancer at carnival shows until joining Walter Page's band, the Blue Devils in Oklahoma City in the late 1920s. He recorded with trumpeter Lloyd Hunter's...
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  • "Blue Devil Blues" is a 1929 blues/jazz standard by Babe Stovall. It was first recorded in November 1929 by Walter Page and the Oklahoma City Blue Devils...
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    Hot Lips Page (category Oklahoma City Blue Devils members)
    recently assumed leadership of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils. It is believed that Oran Page joined the Blue Devils circa 1927, though no known documentation...
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  • Abe Bolar (category Oklahoma City Blue Devils members)
    player. From 1932 to 1936 he was a member of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils. He then moved to New York City, where he played with Hot Lips Page (1938–1940)...
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    Jimmy Rushing (category Oklahoma City Blue Devils members)
    Henry (2007). One O'Clock Jump: The Unforgettable History of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils. Beacon Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-8070-7137-3. "Jimmy Rushing"...
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    Lester Young (category Oklahoma City Blue Devils members)
    in 1932 when he became a member of the Blue Devils led by Walter Page. In 1933, Young settled in Kansas City, where after playing briefly in several...
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  • Anti-Lynching Bill. 1923 – KOCY radio begins broadcasting. 1925 – Oklahoma City Blue Devils jazz band active. 1927 – New Quayle Methodist Episcopal Church...
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    The Duke Blue Devils are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Duke University, located in Durham, North Carolina. Duke's athletics department...
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    Count Basie (category Oklahoma City Blue Devils members)
    (January 2006). One O'clock Jump: The Unforgettable History of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils. Beacon Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-8070-7136-6. Basie (1985), p...
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  • Buster Smith (category Oklahoma City Blue Devils members)
    to Oran "Hot Lips" Page inviting Smith to join his group, the Oklahoma City Blue Devils, in 1925. Over the next few years, Smith wrote much of the group's...
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  • York. Perhaps the most famous of the Oklahoma-based territory bands were the Oklahoma City Blue Devils. The Blue Devils were the foundation for Count Basie's...
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  • (January 2006). One O'clock Jump: The Unforgettable History of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils. Beacon Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-8070-7136-6. Popa, Christopher...
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  • Show on tour until it disbanded in Oklahoma City. The band remained together as Walter Page's Oklahoma City Blue Devils, which in turn later provided the...
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  • Walter Page (category Oklahoma City Blue Devils members)
    formation of Walter Page and the Blue Devils in 1925. The Blue Devils were a territory band based out of the Oklahoma City-Wichita, Kansas area. Throughout...
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  • Eddie Durham (category Oklahoma City Blue Devils members)
    Henry (2006). One O'Clock Jump: The Unforgettable History of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils. Boston: Beacon Press. pp. 193–197. Zelade, Richard (1987). Lone...
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  • Rob Edwards (basketball) (category Oklahoma City Blue players)
    Devils before beginning his professional career with the Oklahoma City Blue in 2021. During the 2021–22 season, Edwards was called up to the Oklahoma...
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  • and signature sounds, none more storied than Walter Page's Blue Devils, the Oklahoma City-based outfit that Count Basie joined in 1926. Territory bands...
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    The Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represents Duke University in NCAA Division I college basketball and competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference...
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  • Barney Kessel KVOO Roy Clark Color Me Badd Wanda Jackson The Oklahoma City Blue Devils Jim Halsey Leona Mitchell Caddo Nation The Texas Playboys Bob...
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    Claude Williams (musician) (category Oklahoma City Blue Devils members)
    at barbershops around their hometown of Muskogee, Oklahoma and on a circuit up through Oklahoma City. At the time he'd make six to seven dollars for a...
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    The 1985–86 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represented Duke University. The head coach was Mike Krzyzewski. The team played its home games in...
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    Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represented Duke University during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Blue Devils were led...
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    Henry (2006). One O'Clock Jump: The Unforgettable History of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-7136-6. Dregni, Michael (2004)...
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  • (January 2006). One O'clock Jump: The Unforgettable History of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils. Beacon Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-8070-7136-6. Driggs, Frank;...
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  • Unforgettable History of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils, Douglas Henry Daniels, Beacon Press (2006), pg. 131; OCLC 55800901 Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to...
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    The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a non-profit organization that honors jazz, blues and gospel musicians in the state of Oklahoma...
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  • Blue Mustang (colloquially known as Blucifer) is a cast-fiberglass sculpture of a mustang located at Denver International Airport (DEN). Colored bright...
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