Keith Nichols

Keith Nichols
Birth name Keith Nichols
Born (1945-02-13) 13 February 1945
Origin United Kingdom Ilford, Essex, UK
Genres Jazz
Instruments piano, trombone, reeds, accordion
Labels Stomp Off Records
Associated acts Digby Fairweather
Mike Daniels

Keith Nichols (born 13 February 1945) is a British jazz multi-instrumentalist and arranger, a player of the piano, trombone, reeds, and accordion.

Biography

Born in Ilford, Essex, UK, Nichols was a child actor and an award-winning accordionist in his youth. He tends to play mostly ragtime tunes, gaining notoriety in the 1970s in London when forming the band New Sedalia. Nichols also formed the Ragtime Orchestra in the mid-1970s along with Mo Morris, Richard Warner and Paul Nossiter. Nichols also recorded and gigged with Bing Crosby, and Dick Sudhalter[1] during this period.

Nichols was also a frequent sideman for the EMI record label and an arranger for the New York Jazz Repertory Company, Dick Hyman and the Pasadena Roof Orchestra. In 1978 he helped lead the Midnite Follies Orchestra[1] with Alan Cohen. Other artists Nichols has worked with include Digby Fairweather, Harry Gold, Richard Pite and Claus Jacobi.

Discography

Dreamland Syncopators

Julian Vincent and Keith Nichols

Keith Nichols' Cotton Club Gang and Janice Day with Guy Barker

Keith Nichols and the Cotton Club Orchestra

Keith Nichols' Little Devils

Keith Nichols and the Blue Devils

Keith Nichols' Earthbound Spirits

Keith Nichols' Collegians

Mike Lovell and Keith Nichols

Keith Nichols' Jazz Artists and Northern Sinfonia

Thomas "Spats" Langham / Keith Nichols / Richard Pite

The Nichols-Duffee International Jazz Orchestra

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Yanow, Scott. "Keith Nichols: Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 2010-04-23.

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