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Maxwell Price

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Maxwell Price Trumpeter and Composer was born in Chicago, Illinois; he started playing the trumpet at the age of 15 and began musical studies at Lyon & Healy School of Music, Chicago Illinois and also studied flute and bass clarinet inspired by Eric Dolphy. At the age of 18 he met drummer Richard Joiner, a civil right activist working with C.O.R.E. "Congress of Racial Equality" in which they both participated in local and national demonstrations for civil rights. This affiliation would last for seven years woodshedding, studying and playing throughout Chicago, Canada, California, and finally New York.

1967-1968 Maxwell Price and Richard Joiner started playing with the Byron Pope Jazz Ensemble; in Toronto, Canada later Maxwell Price began trumpet studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music under the direction of Mr. Hines. 1968-1969 Manhattan School of Music; studied voice coaching privately with Yvonne Tiggs, sign reading and ear training, music theory with Jill Pollack, music orchestration for concert band under the direction of Luis Jean Brunelli; Manhattan, New York. Rehearsed with the Kenny Dorham Big Band made possible through the Manhattan School of Music. RCA Recording Studios; studied the art of sound recording (made possible by Manhattan School of Music) studied under the direction of Max Wilcox and John Warren, New York, N.Y. Studied with the Bill Dixon Orchestra, workshop at the University of the Streets New York. 1969-1972 Space Video Arts for Innovative Development; recorded a series of East Indian composition that he composed of North and South Indian Ragas. The musicians participating in this recording session was Maxwell Price, muted trumpet Leroy Jenkins, violin Balakishna, sitar Monty Waters, saxophone Rasheid Ali, drums and Lois Colin, daughter of the publisher Charles Colin, New York. West Beth Building "Video Circus Event" worked and assisted Shirley Clark and the staff of Space Video Arts for the Innovative Development; she was the director of the 50's film "The Cool World". New School of Social Research; studied the musical theory of Walter Piston and music counterpoint under the direction of Dr. Frank Wigglesworth; studied electronic/audio music under the direction of Steve Riech and assisted by Frederic Rezewski, New York. 1970-1972 Wesleyan University; audited courses in the studies of ethnomusicology drumming of the Akan communities of Ghana; North and South Indian music, the Indonesian Gamelan Orchestra; electronic music workshop with Moog and Arp synthesizers with Richard Teitelbaum. (These studies where recommended by Steve Riech.) Lived on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation South Dakota, with the Crow Dog family and played water drum for medicine man Chief Henry Crow Dog, in peyote ceremonies. As Maxwell Price continued his musical studies and living in New York he had the best of day-by-day inspiration given by renown and season musician like Tommy Turrrentine, Bill Dixon, Archie Shepp, Ray Appleton, Allen Blairman, Kenny Dorham, Wilbur Ware, Ed Blackwell, Steve Mc Call, James Duboise of "Studio WE" Sunny Murray, C# Sharp, and many other to draw valuable knowledge and information.

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Mahongwè

Santosha Arts International Inc.
2012

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African Caribbean...

Santosha Arts International Inc.
2008

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Tribute to the Great...

Santosha Arts International Inc.
2000

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