RP
The basics
Quick facts
Intro
American singer
Gender:
Female
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Birth:
27 April 1938(Phoenixville)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Ruth Price (born April 27, 1938) is an American jazz singer and Artistic Director of the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles, California. Price attended ballet school in 1952. In 1954, she sang with Charlie Ventura and later worked as a singer and dancer in Philadelphia and New York City. She moved to Hollywood in 1957 and toured with Harry James from 1964–1965.
Price's repertoire includes many obscure, lesser-known gems from the Great American Songbook. She has worked as an adjunct assistant professor at the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology.
Discography
- My Name is Ruth Price: I Sing (Kapp, 1955)
- Ruth Price Sings with the Johnny Smith Quartet (Roost, 1956)
- The Party's Over (Kapp, 1957)
- Ruth Price with Shelly Manne & His Men at the Manne-Hole (Contemporary, 1961)
- Live and Beautiful (Ava, 1963)
- Lucky to Be Me (ITI, 1983)