Education
Carnegie Mellon University.
Carnegie Mellon University.
Born William Pollak in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, United States, on November 10, 1949, he has lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, since the mid-1970s. Price attracted national attention in the mid-1970s during his three-year collaboration with blues guitarist Roy Buchanan. The pair toured the United States. and Canada, playing Carnegie Hall in New York, the Newport Jazz Festival, the Roxy and Troubadour in Los Angeles, and the Spectrum in Philadelphia.
After leaving Buchanan, Price formed the Keystone Rhythm Band, which toured the Eastern United States on a circuit that stretched from Boston to Atlanta with large followings in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, District of Columbia and North Carolina.
Sustaining several personnel changes, the band performed until 1990. He then formed The Billy Price Band, which currently consists of Steve Delach (guitar), Paul Thompson (bass), Dave Dodd (drums), Jimmy Britton (keyboards), Joe Herndon (trumpet), and Eric DeFade (tenor sax).
Though he works full-time in corporate communications at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, he continues to perform regularly in Pittsburgh, the eastern United States, and occasionally in Europe.
