“The best young voice I’ve heard, period. No one around can even touch her voice and style– a style all her own.”

Kathryn Grayson

(Actress/Singer)

“I think she’s brilliant, I love her.… There’s so much that’s good: the body, the depth, the warmth, and the enunciation!”

Nancy Wilson

(Multi-Grammy Award winning singer/song stylist)

"She’s got an amazing voice. Her pitch is right on … I think she’s got a great future ahead of her…. She’s very adventurous as a singer.”

Al Schmitt

(Grammy-Award winning engineer/producer)

“If I had to use three adjectives: emotive, professional, and skilled… I can hear it in her voice, the way she sings. She sings with a lot of skill, her pitch is really good and you can tell she has command of her instrument…. She’s really learned her craft very, very well.”

Vinnie Colaiuta

(Famed drummer)

“She’s got a tremendous amount of natural ability. She’s got incredible intonation….She’s great, she’s got a natural vibe, she’s got a natural feel. There are singers and there are song stylists…I think she’s a combination of both because she has a personality that she brings to what she does….I think she’s very gifted and has a tremendous future.”

Brian Bromberg

“…it was impressive…she is clearly a talent with extraordinary potential.” “...unquestioned skills…”

“It was apparent, from the start of her first tune — ‘Comes Love’— that Price had a lot of the pieces in place. Her warm sound and buoyant sense of rhythm carried her smoothly through an upbeat, well-crafted reading, followed by equally dynamic versions of ‘The Trolley Song’ and "People Will Say We're in Love.

Ballads were rendered atmospherically, emphasizing Price's rich, dark tones in standards such as ‘Serenade in Blue,’ ‘Every Time We Say Goodbye’ and the bolero ‘Solamente Una Vez.’

And her perky, quick-time rhythms — enhanced by Mike Garson's rhapsodic piano work — were on full display in ‘You Hit the Spot’ and ‘Love You Madly.’”

Los Angeles Times

By Don Heckman

August 1, 2006

"Price is right for jazz stardom.”

Boston Herald

Bob Young

“...young, gifted…” Price “cast[s] a sultry spell.”

“As the performance unfolded, it became clear that Price …has the talent to match her enthusiasm. She certainly didn't make things easy on herself. Neatly accompanied by her trio, she zipped through a Judy Garland-inspired rendering of 'The Trolley Song' with requisite charm and zest.”

The Washington Post

October 25, 2005

“...no unheralded artist has hooked me as quickly as did 20-year-old songstress, Rachael Price.”

“…Price [has an] uncanny scatting ability and…sophisticated phrasing…”

“Price brought a trio of young lions along to Iowa City, including masterful Warren Wolf on piano, Eric Privert on bass, and David Brophy on drums. The repertoire encompassed standards that allowed Price to display a wide range of vocal emotion: Comes Love, Trolley Song, Out of This World, Stairway to the Stars, People Will Say We re in Love, etc. By the third or fourth tune, she was comfortably scatting like a pro… not overdoing it and not afraid to cut loose. At times her phrasing the way she would stretch a word or syllable recalled a higher-register Diana Krall, at other times Ella; her voice seemed elastic, her pitch generally true... Rachael Price has the confidence and ears of a more seasoned singer. I have no idea what this voice will be like in ten years, but it is both scary and thrilling to wonder.”

Jazz Police

July 2006

“She has a rich voice. I feel that she sings from her heart. I enjoy the Great American Standards that compose her repertoire. It's rewarding to know that there are college-age musicians such as Rachel who have a passion for this music. I admire her pursuit to perform in the grand tradition of this music.”

JazzImprov Magazine

By Eric Nemeyer

“I started the show tonight with a young artist named Rachael Price who appeared on Saturday at the Newport Jazz Festival. I did not hear her but when I was there on Sunday I just reached to pick out a CD because, as some of my listeners know, I love female jazz vocalists. I had never heard of this gal before and she had appeared there with T.S. Monk – Thelonious Monk's son the drummer – the day before. And when I got home I put it on, and it blew my mind. I could not believe it. As some of you know, I'm a pretty tough critic when it comes to female vocalists. I've got hundreds of them in my collection, and I just loved this lady.“

Dennis Allee, "Jazz Odyssey", WOMR 92.1 FM

Transcript of excerpts from broadcast of "Jazz Odyssey", with Dennis Allee, Tuesday August 16, 5-9PM, just following her Newport Jazz Festival debut – on WOMR 92.1 FM, broadcasting from Provincetown, MA