Occupation(s) Musician, dancer Associated acts Red Allen | Name Sammy Price Instruments Piano, vocals Genres Jazz, Jump blues | |
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Albums Play George Gershwin, Barrelhouse And Blues Similar People Doc Cheatham, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Lucky Thompson, Marie Knight, Sidney Bechet | ||
One o clock jump sammy price septet 1959
Samuel Blythe Price (October 6, 1908 – April 14, 1992) was an American jazz, boogie-woogie and jump blues pianist and bandleader.
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- One o clock jump sammy price septet 1959
- Elena tourbina piano blues in c sammy price
- Life and career
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Elena tourbina piano blues in c sammy price
Life and career
Price was born in Honey Grove, Texas, United States. During his early career, he was a singer and dancer 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.
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. 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.
He died of a heart attack in April 1992, at home in Harlem, in New York City, at the age of 83.