Ruth Price
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Birth name | Ruth Price |
Born | April 27, 1938 |
Origin | Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Genres | Jazz |
Occupation | Singer |
Instrument | Vocal jazz |
Ruth Price (born April 27, 1938) is an American jazz singer and Artistic Director of the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles, California. Price was originally a dancer, and attended ballet school in 1952.[1] In 1954, she sang with Charlie Ventura, and later worked singing and dancing in Philadelphia and New York City.[1] She moved to Hollywood in 1957, and later toured with Harry James from 1964–1965.[1] Price's diverse repertoire includes many obscure, lesser-known gems from the Great American Songbook.[2] She has worked as an adjunct assistant professor at the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology.[2]
Discography
- My Name is Ruth Price: I Sing (1955)
- Ruth Price Sings with the Johnny Smith Quartet (1956)
- The Party's Over (1957)
- Ruth Price with Shelly Manne & His Men at the Manne-Hole (Contemporary, 1961)
- Live and Beautiful (1963)
- Lucky to Be Me (1983)
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