Instruments Trumpet, piano Genres Rock music Years active 1970s to present Music director Hangfire | Name Jim Price Role Session musician | |
Origin Fort Worth, Texas, United States Occupation(s) Session musician, composer, audio producer Associated acts Rolling Stones, Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, Joe Cocker Albums Lifescapes: An Evening in Paris Similar People Jimmy Miller, Tom Lewis, Leon Russell, Herbie Hancock, Denny Cordell | ||
Record labels A&M Records, MCA Records | ||
James Price (born 1945, Fort Worth, Texas, United States) was, together with Bobby Keys and Jim Horn, one of the most in demand horn session players of the 1970s. He toured extensively with The Rolling Stones from 1970 until 1973, including their 1972 American Tour, and appears on the albums, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main St. and Goats Head Soup. From September 1968 to February 1969, Price played with New Buffalo Springfield. He also toured and recorded with Delaney, Bonnie and Friends, Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen and Eric Clapton.
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Career
Price worked as a session musician, playing trombone and trumpet in the Los Angeles area. His work on the Delaney & Bonnie album Accept No Substitute (1969) led to touring with the band. He next appeared on Clapton's self-titled solo album (1970). Also that year, he worked on All Things Must Pass with George Harrison and Mad Dogs and Englishmen with Joe Cocker. The next year he appeared on Barbra Streisand's album Barbra Joan Streisand. He also worked as record producer in this period. During the 1980s and 1990s, Price composed music for numerous motion pictures, television programs and advertisements.
Albums produced by Price
Television and film scores
Price orchestrated the underscoring for ABC Children's Weekend Specials (Asselin Productions). He also arranged, conducted, and produced the music score for the SHO Films production City Limits, starring Robbie Benson and James Earl Jones, produced by Rupert Harvey and Barry Opper, and directed by Aaron Lipstadt.
He composed, arranged, conducted, and produced the music score for the MHE production Heated Vengeance, starring Richard Hatch, Jolina Collins, Ron Max, and Michael J. Pollard and directed by Edward Murphy. In addition he was the composer and music director for the ABC two-hour special All-Star Pro Sports Awards. Price also composed, arranged, and produced music score for MPCA feature film Hangfire, starring Brad Davis, Kim Delaney, George Kennedy, and Yaphet Kotto, and directed by Peter Maris.