Sammy Price
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| Sammy Price | |
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| File:Wilbur De Paris, Sammy Price, Sidney De Paris, Eddie Barefield, and Charlie Traeger, Jimmy Ryan's (Club), New York, ca. July 1947 (William P. Gottlieb 02031).jpg
Price (background) with Wilbur De Paris (left), Sidney De Paris, Eddie Barefield and Charlie Traeger, Jimmy Ryan's (Club), New York, c. July 1947. Photograph by William P. Gottlieb.
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| Born | October 6, 1908 Honey Grove, Texas, United States |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. New York City, United States |
| Genres | Jazz, jump blues |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, dancer |
| Instruments | Piano, vocals |
| Associated acts | Henry "Red" Allen |
Samuel Blythe Price (October 6, 1908 – April 14, 1992)[1] was an American jazz, boogie-woogie and jump blues pianist and bandleader.[2]
Early life
Price was born in Honey Grove, Texas, United States.[3]
Later life and career
During his early career, Price was a singer and dancer[4] in local venues in the Dallas area. Price lived and played jazz in Kansas City, Chicago and Detroit. In 1938 he was hired by Decca Records as a session sideman on piano, assisting singers such as Trixie Smith and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.[5]
Price was most noteworthy for his work on Decca Records with his own band, known as the Texas Bluesicians, that included fellow musicians Don Stovall and Emmett Berry.[5] Price also had a decade-long partnership with Henry "Red" Allen.
Later in his life, Price partnered with the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, and was the headline entertainment at the Crawdaddy Restaurant, a New Orleans themed restaurant in New York in the mid-1970s. Both Benny Goodman and Buddy Rich played with Price at this venue. in the 1980s he switched to playing in the bar of Boston's Copley Plaza.[5]
He died of a heart attack in April 1992, at home in Harlem, in New York City, at the age of 83.
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