Red Nichols

Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols ( born May 8, 1905 in Ogden, Utah, † June 28, 1965 in Las Vegas, Nevada ) was an American jazz musician, cornetist and trumpeter. Nichols is one of the outstanding representatives of the Chicago jazz. His playing style was influenced by Bix Beiderbeckes, with whom he was always compared. In fact, he was one of the few cornet player that could hold it with respect to style, phrasing and lyrical expressiveness with Beiderbecke during the 1920s.

Life and work

Nichols, who was called because of his red hair "Red", was given by his father, a music teacher, a comprehensive musical education. Initial moves with the dance band The Five Syncopating from the Midwest, he moved in 1923 to New York. During the 1920s he worked on over 4000 recordings with, among other things, with The California Ramblers. Of the numerous small formations that he put together for recording and touring Red Nichols and his Five Pennies is the best known, with the " Washboard Blues" in April 1927 had her first chart success on the Billboard Top 30. He also played with Dick McDonough, Jimmy Dorsey, Miff Mole, Vic Berton, inter alia, in the studio band, The Charleston Chasers, who had her first hit with "Someday, Sweetheart" (# 19) in May 1927.

With " Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider " he reached in November position 1 on the charts and landed a million success. In his bands worked under other Benny Goodman, Miff Mole, Jimmy Dorsey, Jack Teagarden, Glenn Miller, Pee Wee Russell, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Adrian Rollini and Gene Krupa, with which he, inter alia, the standard Back Home Again in Indiana ( 1929) grossed. In addition, he also played at The Little Ramblers and Sam Lanin. With his Five Pennies Nichols appeared on January 14, 1930 the premiere of the revised version of Gershwin's musical " Strike Up the Band " on Broadway with; the 78s of the title song reached # 7 on the Billboard Top 30

Over the next three decades he led studio and Broadway Orchestra and performed in numerous radio and television shows. Between 1942 and 1944 he was part of the Casa Loma Orchestra before he revived his Five Pennies, with whom he participated in the Dixieland revival.

His life was made ​​into a film in 1959 in a highly idealized manner with Danny Kaye ( The Five Pennies ), but helped him to a fulminant comeback.

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