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| | CD Baby: DI ANNE PRICE: A Good Man Is Hard To Find - from dianneprice |
 | | A prime attraction on the city's club scene, Price is a genius singer, knocking out jazz and blues standards with the soul power of a modern-day Bessie Smith and the light touch of Ella Fitzgerald, yet she never puts her sublime voice ahead of putting across a song. |
 | | PriceÍs piano work is equally expansive and impressive, with roots in the barrelhouse blues of Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons as well as the ornate bebop flourishes of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk. |
 | | To Price, "reading" means reading notes, and she speaks of her mother and music in a long, slow rubato, itself almost a song."I would wake up in the middle of the night as a little person, and I would sit straight up in the bed, and I would want to play the piano," she says. |
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