Ruth Price

Ruth Price (born April 27, 1938 ) is an American jazz singer .

Ruth Price was originally a dancer; In 1952 she completed her dance training. In 1954 she sang in Charlie Ventura's orchestra; later she worked as a dancer and singer in Philadelphia and New York City ; In 1955 recordings were made for Roost Records with the band of jazz guitarist Johnny Smith . In 1957 she moved to Hollywood ; there, among other things, her album Ruth Price with Shelly Manne at the Manne-Hole was created , on which, in addition to Manne, his former band of Richie Kamuca , Conte Candoli , Russ Freeman and Chuck Berghofer participated. In 1964/65 she went on tour with Harry James' band . She later worked as an assistant professor at UCLA in the Department of Ethnic Music. From the 1990s she ran the Jazz Bakery jazz club in Culver City , California .

Discographic notes

• My Name is Ruth Price: I Sing (Kapp, 1955)
• Ruth Price Sings with the Johnny Smith Quartet ( Roost / Fresh Sound , 1956)
• The Party's Over (Kapp, 1957)
• Ruth Price with Shelly Manne at the Manne-Hole ( Contemporary / OJC, 1961)
• Live and Beautiful (Ava, 1963)
• Lucky to Be Me (ITI, 1983)

Filmography

• 1961: The Roaring 20's (TV series, episode)
• 1969: The swimming pool (La Piscine)
• 1972: Dig (short film)
• 1973: Adam-12 (TV series, one episode)
• 1974: Banacek (TV series, an episode)
• 1976: Dr. med. Marcus Welby ( Marcus Welby, MD , TV series, an episode)

literature

• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-141-02327-9 .

Web links

• Ruth Price in the All Music Guide (English)
• UCLA ( Memento of May 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
• Ruth Price in the Internet Movie Database (English)