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Keith Nichols (13 February 1945 – 21 January 2021)[1] was an English jazz multi-instrumentalist and arranger, a player of the piano, trombone, reeds, and accordion.
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Born in Ilford, Essex, England,[2] Nichols was a child actor and an award-winning accordionist in his youth. He began by playing ragtime tunes, gaining notice in the 1970s in London when forming the band New Sedalia.[2] Nichols also formed the Ragtime Orchestra in the mid-1970s,[2] along with Mo Morris, Richard Warner and Paul Nossiter. Nichols recorded and gigged with Bing Crosby, and Dick Sudhalter[3] during this period. Over time, he moved on to Dixieland jazz, Swing, and orchestral Jazz, including the oeuvres of Paul Whiteman and Duke Ellington.[2]
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.[2] In 1978, he helped lead the Midnite Follies Orchestra[3] with Alan Cohen. Other artists Nichols worked with include Digby Fairweather, Harry Gold, Richard Pite and Claus Jacobi. He died of while contracting COVID-19 COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom while being treated for another condition on 21 January 2021, at The Royal London Hospital.[4]
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)[3]
Keith Nichols and the Cotton Club Orchestra
- Syncopated Jamboree (1991) (CD, Stomp Off CD 1242)
- Henderson Stomp (1993) (CD, Stomp Off CD 1234)[3]
- Harlem's Arabian Nights (1997) (CD, Stomp Off CD 130)[3]
Keith Nichols' Little Devils
- The Charmful Little Armful (2003) (PEK)[3]
Keith Nichols and the Blue Devils
- Kansas City Breakdown (2004) (CD, Stomp Off CD 1387)[3]
Keith Nichols' Earthbound Spirits
- Harlem Madness (2004) (CD, PKCD-237)[3]
Keith Nichols' Collegians
- Collegiate Rhythm (2006) (CD, PEK PKCD-299)[3]
Mike Lovell and Keith Nichols
- Dixieland at the Thornton Little Theatre (2006) (CD, PEK)[3]
Keith Nichols' Jazz Artists and Northern Sinfonia
- A Tribute to Paul Whiteman (2007) (CD, Lake Records LACD245)[3]
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)[3]
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