Biography
3 December 1919, New York City, New York, USA, d. 12 April 1963, New York City, New York, USA. In the late 30s and early 40s Nichols played piano with numerous bands in a wide variety of styles. The bands included those of Herman Autrey, Illinois Jacquet, Lucky Thompson, Edgar Sampson and Arnett Cobb, while the styles ranged across small-group swing, dixieland and R&B. A remarkably original and talented musician, Nichols developed a personal music that owed a debt to bebop, particularly to its more idiosyncratic practitioners such as Thelonious Monk, but for much of his life the only gigs he could secure were playing dixieland music, which he came to dislike intensely. In the early 60s, he was able to work occasionally with modern musicians closer to his advanced thinking, among them Roswell Rudd and Archie Shepp, but by then he was terminally ill with leukaemia (though Rudd also blamed "a broken heart" brought on by "years of frustration, neglect and...
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