Red Nichols

Genres:	Big Band & Swing, Blues, Jazz
Decades Active:	1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
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Biography

Ernest Loring Nichols, 8 May 1905, Ogden, Utah, USA, d. 28 June 1965, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Taught by his father, cornettist Nichols quickly became a highly accomplished performer. Strongly influenced by early white jazz bands, and in particular by Bix Beiderbecke, he moved to New York in the early 20s and was soon one of the busiest musicians in town. He recorded hundreds of tracks, using a bewildering array of names for his bands, but favouring the Five Pennies, a group that was usually eight pieces or more in size. In these bands Nichols used the cream of the white jazzmen of the day, including one of his closest friends, Miff Mole, plus Jimmy Dorsey, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Pee Wee Russell, Benny Goodman and Jack Teagarden. Although his sharp business sense and desire for formality and respect alienated him from hard-living contemporaries such as Eddie Condon, Nichols remained enormously successful, continuing to lead bands and record until the outbreak of...

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