Friday 25 January 2019

719) Red Nichols

Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols (1905 – 1965). American jazz cornettist, composer, and jazz bandleader.
Over his long career, Nichols recorded in a wide variety of musical styles, and critic Steve Leggett[1] describes him as "an expert cornet player, a solid improviser, and apparently a workaholic, since he is rumored to have appeared on over 4,000 recordings during the 1920s alone."

- "1920s' New York was full of young jazz musicians who’d rolled in from somewhere else. Ernest Loring Nichols, a redheaded kid from Utah..." http://riverwalkjazz.stanford.edu/…/crazy-rhythm-red-nichol…

- "Known as Red for his bright rusty crop of hair..." http://www.20sjazz.com/…/red-nichols/red-nichols--his-five-…

- "Ernest Nichols, nicknamed ' Red ' because of his red hair...http://pop-culture.wikia.com/wiki/The_Five_Pennies


 - "Born in Ogden, Utah in 1905, Red Nichols was the red-haired son of a music teacher and multi-instrumentalist..." http://original-jazz-history.blogspot.com/…/18-red-nichols-…


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