Keith Nichols

Keith Nichols (13 February 1945 – 20 January 2021) was an English jazz multi-instrumentalist and arranger, a player of the piano, trombone, reeds, and accordion.

Keith Nichols
Born(1945-02-13)13 February 1945
OriginIlford, Essex, England, UK
Died20 January 2021(2021-01-20) (aged 75)
London, England, UK
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Musician
Instrumentspiano, trombone, reeds, accordion
LabelsStomp Off
Associated actsDigby Fairweather, Mike Daniels

Biography

Born in Ilford, Essex, Nichols was a child actor and an award-winning accordionist in his youth. He began by playing 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 recorded and gigged with Bing Crosby, and Dick Sudhalter[1] during this period. Over time he moved on to Dixieland jazz, Swing, and orchestral Jazz, including the oeuvres of Paul Whiteman and Duke Ellington.

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 worked with include Digby Fairweather, Harry Gold, Richard Pite and Claus Jacobi. He died of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom on 20 January 2021, at approximately 11pm, in The Royal London Hospital.[2]

Discography

Paramount Theatre Orchestra (1984) (LP, Stomp Off)

  • Lolly Pops

Dreamland Syncopators

  • Territory Jazz (1987) (LP, Stomp Off)

Julian Vincent and Keith Nichols

  • Morton to Mozart (1989) (CD, Poppy HXP012)

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

  • I Like To Do Things For You (1991) (CD, Stomp Off)[1]

Keith Nichols and the Cotton Club Orchestra

  • Syncopated Jamboree (1991) (CD, Stomp Off CD 1242)
  • Henderson Stomp (1993) (CD, Stomp Off CD 1234)[1]
  • Harlem's Arabian Nights (1997) (CD, Stomp Off CD 130)[1]

Keith Nichols' Little Devils

  • The Charmful Little Armful (2003) (PEK)[1]

Keith Nichols and the Blue Devils

  • Kansas City Breakdown (2004) (CD, Stomp Off CD 1387)[1]

Keith Nichols' Earthbound Spirits

  • Harlem Madness (2004) (CD, PKCD-237)[1]

Keith Nichols' Collegians

  • Collegiate Rhythm (2006) (CD, PEK PKCD-299)[1]

Mike Lovell and Keith Nichols

  • Dixieland at the Thornton Little Theatre (2006) (CD, PEK)[1]

Keith Nichols' Jazz Artists and Northern Sinfonia

Thomas "Spats" Langham / Keith Nichols / Richard Pite

  • London Omnibus (2010) (Jazz Repertory Company)

The Nichols-Duffee International Jazz Orchestra

  • One More Time (2013) (CD, Lake)[1]

References
  1. Yanow, Scott. "Keith Nichols: Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
  2. Bebco, Joe. "British Bandleader Keith Nichols has died. – The Syncopated Times". syncopatedtimes.com. Retrieved 20 January 2021.


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