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Wikipedia / Ruth Price

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 to 1965. In the 1960s and 1970s, she had several TV appearances both as herself in musical specials and as an actress in popular TV shows of the time.

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

Recorded

Album Title

Label

Catalogue No.

Release

1955

My Name Is Ruth Price....I Sing!

Kapp

KL-1006

LP/CD

1956

Ruth Price Sings with the Johnny Smith Quartet

(Roost

RLP 2217

LP/CD

1957

The Party's Over

Kapp Records

KL-1054

LP

1961

Ruth Price with Shelly Manne & His Men at the Manne-Hole

Contemporary

S7590

LP/CD

1963

Live And Beautiful

Ava

A-54

LP

1983

Lucky To Be Me

ITI

LP

2014

Dearly Beloved

Blue Playa Records

CD/Digital Compilation Album

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