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Rachael Price
Twenty-three year old jazz vocalist Rachael Price has amassed an impressive resume for her age. With the September 2008 release her new recording “The Good Hours," Price mused on the whirlwind ride of the last five years. “It's been amazing” touring the U.S. with my trio, singing with the T.S. Monk Sextet, international jazz festivals in Brazil and Panama, recording three CD's” all while completing a degree in Jazz Studies at the New England Conservatory.”
Born in Australia and raised in Nashville, Price admits she “has been singing jazz since a small child.” She recalls “jazz hit an inner chord with me at the age of five. I heard Ella Fitzgerald's rendition of The Lady is a Tramp. I didn't understand the lyrics, but I liked the feeling it gave me.” Her father had an extensive jazz collection, and the young child started singing along with Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Anita O'Day, Peggy Lee, Doris Day and others. “By the time she was nine,” her dad recalls, “she sounded just like the classic vocalists of the 40's…she would spend hours singing while pretending she was in some old black and white musical.”
At seventeen, still in high school, she recorded “Dedicated To You”, a collection of standards as a tribute to Ella, Doris, Nat King Cole and others. When the singer and actress Kathryn Grayson, of MGM musicals fame, first heard the recording in 2003 she exclaimed it was “the best young voice I've heard, period. No one around can even touch her voice and style” a style all her own.”
After winning many local talent competitions in Tennessee, she was selected as a vocalist by the Grammy Foundation for their National High School Jazz Choir, and went on to become the youngest semi-finalist in both the Montreaux International Jazz Vocal Competition in Europe and the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. While performing in Switzerland she was heard by six-time Grammy nominee Nnenna Freelon. Nnenna, and her manager, Ed Keane, were so impressed with the seventeen-year-old that he signed her up, and the touring has been constant ever since.
In her first appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival she received a standing ovation, and the Boston Globe announced “young vocalist Rachael Price created a small buzz with her work sitting in with the T.S. Monk Sextet.” In 2006 the Los Angeles Times reported that “she is clearly a talent with extraordinary potential.” Similar rave reviews appeared in newspapers throughout the country as she began touring with her own trio.
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Bad Habits
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by H William Stine
We all have them. We may try to hide them with varying degrees of success or failure because--let's face it--they totally reveal us, they embarrass us, and the worst ones can actually define us for the rest of our lives. Of course I'm talking about our high school yearbook photos. Of course I'm not talking about our high school yearbook photos. I'm talking about Bad Habits. So it was nothing but Bad Habits this week--ranging from binge watching to smoking, ...
read moreRachael And The Red Socks: Melodies And Time
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by Bruce Lindsay
Melodies And Time creates a quandary for those who seek to put music into neat little boxes. It begins with a hint of Lal Waterson, one of Britain's finest and most underrated songwriters; adds arrangements worthy of Robert Kirby's work with Nick Drake; and melds pastoral tones with African instruments. There are touches of jazz and blues, a few shuffle rhythms, and the romantic harp of leader and composer Rachael Gladwin. It all makes Rachael and the Red Socks' debut ...
read moreRachael & Vilray available now on Nonesuch
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“It’s a special kind of magic when two voices meet and immediately sound like they’ve never been apart. The voices of acoustic duo Rachael & Vilray are magical enough on their own, but when they blend in song the results are utterly sublime.” —Chronogram Nonesuch Records releases Rachael & Vilray—the debut album by Lake Street Dive singer-songwriter Rachael Price and composer, singer, and guitarist Vilray —October 4, 2019. The twelve-song set features ten originals by Vilray, along with two covers ...
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Arturo O'Farrill, Rachael Price Featured at Saratoga Springs, NY, Venue's Extended Season
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All About Jazz
Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, NY, is featuring Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra--winners of a 2009 Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album--and rising star vocalist Rachael Price among the artists of the 2009 Extended Season this month.
Also performing will be the world-renowned Boys & Girls Choir of Harlem Alumni Ensemble.
Performances are scheduled for May 23, 29 and 30 in SPAC's Little Theatre at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25 and can be ordered ...
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Jazz This Week: Victor Wooten, Rachael Price, Funky Butt Brass Band, and More
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There's plenty of interesting stuff on tap for jazz fans in St. Louis over the next few days, including visits from two touring musicians and a couple of free concerts featuring two of the area's talented jazz pianists.The first of those free shows is tonight, when keyboard player Adaron Pops" Jackson performs in a free concert at the newly renovated Soulard Preservation Hall as part of Jazz St. Louis' Whitaker Community Concerts series. Jackson, who also plays with ...
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Simone and Rachael Price at South Orange Performing Arts Center on November 8th
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South Orange Performing Arts Center One SOPAC Way South Orange, NJ 07079 973-313-ARTS(2787) Simone and Rachael Price Saturday, November 8, 2008 8pm Tickets $35 | $28 Simone If a superstar could ever rise again out of a (mostly) jazz background, Simone, the daughter of vocal legend Nina Simone, has to be first in line. Watching her perform shows that she clearly respects her mother's significant musical legacy however, ...
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New Rachael Price CD Garners Early Acclaim
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Tom Estey Publicity & Promotion
Fans and critics are welcoming the latest recording from 23-year-old vocalist Rachael Price. An alarmingly mature delivery," writes George Harris in the LA Jazz Weekly, mix Anita O'Day's timing with a young Sarah Vaughan's sense of dynamics, and you get a feel for why she sang with T.S. Monk's sextet.... [there is] lots to like and adore on this welcome release by a lady whose value is likely to rise."
Entitled The Good Hours, Price's new offering reveals the steady ...
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“Price is right for jazz stardom.” - Boston Herald, Bob Young
“Singer Rachael Price, who performed at The Kennedy Center on Thursday night, is young, gifted...it became clear that Price...has the talent to match her enthusiasm.” - The Washington Post , Mike Joyce
“...(Price) created a buzz with her work singing with the T. S. Monk Sextet [at the 2005 Newport Jazz Festival].” - The Boston Globe, Bill Beuttler
“Uncanny scatting ability and her sophisticated phrasing . . . .No unheralded artist has hooked me as quickly as did 20-year-old songstress, Rachael Price” - www.jazzpolice.com