Search - Artist/Band: Sammy Price

• Name: Sammy Price
• Birthday: 10/06/1908
• Birth Place: Honey Grove, TX
• Died: 04/14/1992
• Decades Active: 1920,1930,1940,1950,1960,1970,1980
• Genre: Blues
• Styles: Boogie-Woogie, Jump Blues, Piano Blues, Swing
• Moods: Boisterous, Exuberant, Joyous, Rollicking

Title	Release
Good Paree	05/01/2007
Sammy Price and the Blues Singers, Vol. 2: 1939-1949 WA	03/04/2003
Jazz in Paris: Sammy Price & Doc Cheatham Play George Gershwin	02/18/2003
The Definitive Black & Blue Sessions	07/01/2002
Sammy Price and the Blues Singers: 1938-1941 WA	09/04/2001
Jazz in Paris: Paris Blues	06/05/2001
1942-1945	02/15/2000
Play It Again Sam	12/25/1999
Sammy Price: Blues & Boogie Woogie from Texas	08/10/1999
Jammin' with Sammy	05/04/1999
1944 World Jam Session	11/25/1996
King of Boogie Woogie WA	1995
1929-1941 WA	1993
Just Right	11/02/1977
Boogie & Jazz Classics	05/25/1975
Fire	05/01/1975
Barrelhouse and Blues	12/04/1969
Midnight Boogie	11/14/1969

Sammy Price had a long and productive career as a flexible blues and boogie-woogie-based pianist. He studied piano in Dallas and was a singer and dancer with Alphonso Trent's band during 1927-1930. In 1929, he recorded one solitary side under the title of "Sammy Price and His Four Quarters." After a few years in Kansas City, he spent time in Chicago and Detroit. In 1938, Price became the house pianist for Decca in New York and appeared on many blues sides with such singers as Trixie Smith and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. He led his own band on records in the early '40s which included (on one memorable session) Lester Young. Price worked steadily on 52nd Street, in 1948 played at the Nice Festival with Mezz Mezzrow, spent time back in Texas, and then a decade with Red Allen; he was also heard on many rock & roll-type sessions in the 1950s. In later years he recorded with Doc Cheatham. Sammy Price was active until near his death, 63 years after his recording debut. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide