John Elwood Price (21 June 1935 – 9 May 1995) was an American composer, pianist, ethnomusicologist, and music teacher.
[4] In 1963, he earned a Master of Music at the University of Tulsa, where he studied with Oscar Anderson Fuller and Bela Rozsa.
He later studied music at Washington University in St. Louis, working with Robert Wykes and Harold Blumenfeld.
[5] From 1957 to 1959, Elwood was the staff pianist at the Karamu House, a historic Black theater in the Fairfax neighborhood on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio.
He taught at Florida Memorial College, where he was Chairman of Music and Fine Arts and composer-in-residence.