⬇️ SAMMY PRICE ⬇️
(Samuel Blythe Price)
DISCOGRAPHY 1958-2008 (18CD)
Sammy Price (October 6, 1908 – April 14, 1992) was an American jazz,
boogie-woogie and jump blues pianist and bandleader.
(Samuel Blythe Price)
DISCOGRAPHY 1958-2008 (18CD)
BIOGRAPHY
He was born Samuel Blythe Price, in Honey Grove, Texas, United States.
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.
The artist was equally notable for his decade-long partnership with
Henry "Red" Allen.
During his early career, Price 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.
Later in his life, he partnered with the Roosevelt Hotel in New York, 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 in April 1992, in New York, at the age of 83.
(Wikipedia)