PRICE, JESSE. Jazz drummer ( in Memphis, Tennessee; in Los Angeles, California). He began playing professionally at an early age and toured with Sidney Desvignes,
W. C. Handy
, and Bessie Smith, among others, before he arrived in Kansas City, Missouri, in the 1930s as a member of the
Georgia Minstrels
. There he played with
William (Count
) Basie
,
Thamon Hayes
, George E. Lee, William (Bill
) Martin, and others, as well as led his own groups...