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Red Nichols: The Red Heads

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Red NicholsThe Red HeadsJazz Oracle2003 If you play on your own terms for small audiences without any recognition, you're a hero; if you do it while earning a steady paycheck and selling plenty of records, you're a sell-out. Or so it might seem for Ernest Loring “Red" Nichols (1905-1965): trumpeter, composer, bandleader, polarizing figure in American music and possibly the most well employed musician of the Jazz Age. ...

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"Crazy Rhythm:" Red Nichols And His Five Pennies This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

"Crazy Rhythm:" Red Nichols And His Five Pennies This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick

This week on Riverwalk Jazz the Jim Cullum Jazz Band tells the story of Red Nichols and his Five Pennies, illustrated with numerous historical recordings of Nichols and the ensembles he led. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. 1920s New York was full of young jazz musicians who’d rolled in from somewhere else. Ernest Loring Nichols, a ...

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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Red Nichols

This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Red Nichols

Source: Don Mopsick

This week on Riverwalk Jazz the Jim Cullum Jazz Band tells the story of Red Nichols and his Five Pennies, illustrated with numerous historical recordings of Nichols and the ensembles he led. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. 1920s New York was full of young jazz musicians who’d rolled in from somewhere else. Ernest Loring Nichols, a redheaded kid from Utah ...

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Great Original...

Continuum Records
1987

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Red & Miff (1926-1931)

Continuum Records
1982

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Sessions, Live

Continuum Records
1976

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Red Nichols And His...

Continuum Records
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Parade Of The Pennies

Continuum Records
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