Red Nichols

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Morning Glory 03:34 Tools
Davenport Blues 03:31 Tools
Overnight Hop 02:31 Tools
You're The Greatest Discovery (Since 1492) 02:51 Tools
Riverboat Shuffle 02:59 Tools
Our Love 03:23 Tools
Original Dixieland One Step 03:05 Tools
Sweet Georgia Brown 02:46 Tools
Delirium 03:05 Tools
Indiana (From "Sweet and Lowdown") 02:42 Tools
Lowland Blues 02:48 Tools
Wail Of The Winds (Theme Song) 03:16 Tools
Indiana 02:28 Tools
Dinah 03:15 Tools
My Melancholy Baby 02:14 Tools
Alice Blue Gown 02:47 Tools
Washboard Blues 03:06 Tools
I'm Tickled Pink With A Blue-Eyes Baby (11-18-30) 02:47 Tools
I Got Rhythm 02:51 Tools
Roses Of Picardy 02:40 Tools
Everybody Loves My Baby 02:39 Tools
China Boy 02:48 Tools
Harlem Twist 02:52 Tools
Boneyard Shuffle 03:07 Tools
On the Alamo 03:04 Tools
Fan It 03:19 Tools
The Sheik Of Araby 03:11 Tools
Allah's Holiday 03:21 Tools
Strike Up The Band (The Tao Of Groove Remix) 04:06 Tools
Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble 02:58 Tools
Peg O' My Heart 02:55 Tools
Whispering (05-31-28) 03:05 Tools
Rose of Washington 02:51 Tools
Strike Up the Band 02:43 Tools
Poor Butterfly 02:38 Tools
Wabash Blues 02:38 Tools
Bugle Call Rag 02:55 Tools
Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider 02:50 Tools
Avalon 03:07 Tools
Back Home In Indiana 02:43 Tools
Imagination 02:59 Tools
The Darktown Strutter's Ball 02:57 Tools
Washboard Blues I 02:33 Tools
Keep a Song in Your Soul 02:41 Tools
Five pennies 02:57 Tools
Panama 03:04 Tools
The Hour Of Parting 02:56 Tools
That's No Bargain 02:43 Tools
A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody 03:05 Tools
Margie 02:33 Tools
The Darktown Strutters Ball 02:55 Tools
My Honey's Lovin' Arms 02:56 Tools
Hurricane 02:58 Tools
Someday Sweetheart 03:08 Tools
After You've Gone 02:31 Tools
Keepin' Out of Mischief Now (From "Interiors") 02:41 Tools
Strike Up The Band - The Tao Of Groove Remix 04:05 Tools
The Parade Of The Pennies 02:28 Tools
Tiger Rag 02:22 Tools
Corrine Corinna 02:46 Tools
Corrinne 03:01 Tools
You Rascal, You 02:53 Tools
Buddy's Habits 02:51 Tools
Corrine Corrina 02:58 Tools
Whispering 03:05 Tools
Battle Hymn of the Republic 05:49 Tools
Tears From My Inkwell 03:01 Tools
Rose of the Washington Square 03:06 Tools
Sassin' The Boss 03:01 Tools
THE NEW YORKERS 03:06 Tools
Corrine, Corrina 03:02 Tools
Parade of the Wooden Soldiers 02:49 Tools
Feelin' No Pain 02:44 Tools
I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak 02:58 Tools
I've Found a New Baby 03:02 Tools
Washboard Blues (12-08-26) 02:46 Tools
Back Home In Indiana (Remastered Version 1959 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 02:53 Tools
There'll Come a Time 03:10 Tools
Eccentric 03:27 Tools
Mean Dog Blues 03:14 Tools
Medley - a: Honey B: After You've Gone 02:32 Tools
You're So Desireable 02:57 Tools
Original Dixie Land One Step 02:46 Tools
Slippin' Around 02:49 Tools
Original Dixieland Step 04:46 Tools
Sometimes I'm Happy 03:04 Tools
Sugar 03:17 Tools
Can't We Be Friends? 02:57 Tools
Corinne Corinna 02:59 Tools
Sweet And Hot 03:02 Tools
The Jumpin' Jive 03:07 Tools
Down And Out Blues 02:59 Tools
It's Way Past My Dreaming Time 02:53 Tools
Cornfed 02:53 Tools
That's a Plenty 02:53 Tools
The Peanut Vendor 02:49 Tools
Jazz Of The 1920s 02:49 Tools
Ballin' the Jack 02:49 Tools
Marianne 03:09 Tools
Louisiana 03:03 Tools
The King Kong 02:50 Tools
Clarinet Marmalade 02:21 Tools
Lazy River 02:24 Tools
I'm Just Wild About Harry 03:08 Tools
Peaceful Valley 02:23 Tools
NOBODY'S SWEETHEART 03:08 Tools
She Shall Have Music 02:17 Tools
Hot Lips 02:44 Tools
I Got Rhythm (10-23-30) 02:55 Tools
I'm In Love Again 02:52 Tools
Washboard Blues II 03:17 Tools
My Gal Sal 03:07 Tools
After You Get What You Want, You Don't Want It 02:40 Tools
Pensacola 02:36 Tools
When My Sugar Walks Down the Street 02:52 Tools
Rosy Cheeks 02:57 Tools
I NEVER KNEW 04:46 Tools
At Last I'm Happy 02:47 Tools
I Live Again (Because I'm In Love Again) 02:47 Tools
Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider (08-15-27) 03:20 Tools
I May Be Wrong (But I Think You're Wonderful) 02:57 Tools
It Had To Be You 04:46 Tools
Poor Joulie Jean 03:02 Tools
Alabama Stomp 02:49 Tools
Dallas Blues 02:38 Tools
Birmingham Breakdown 02:49 Tools
(Back Home In) Indiana 03:08 Tools
A Girl Friend Of A Boy Friend Of Mine (10-23-30) 00:00 Tools
Meet Miss 8 Beat 02:41 Tools
Memphis Blues 02:49 Tools
Shake It and Break It 03:08 Tools
Back Beats 02:53 Tools
Tea for Two 00:00 Tools
Address Unknown 02:49 Tools
I Can't Give You Anything But Love 04:36 Tools
Building A Nest For Mary (Instr.) 03:08 Tools
I'll See You In My Dreams 04:36 Tools
Nobody's Rose 00:00 Tools
Embraceable You 03:00 Tools
Sensation Rag 03:12 Tools
Camel Walk 02:55 Tools
Limehouse Blues - From Popular Concert 00:00 Tools
Who Cares? 03:18 Tools
Ja-Da (Ja-Da-Ja-Da, Jing, Jing, Jing) 03:10 Tools
Beat Me Daddy (Eight To The Bar) 04:36 Tools
Some Of These Days 04:15 Tools
Roses Of Picardy (02-16-29) 03:02 Tools
Farewell Blues 03:12 Tools
Melancholy Charlie 02:52 Tools
Let Me Dream 03:00 Tools
Peg O'my Heart 03:09 Tools
I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me 02:55 Tools
Get Happy 00:00 Tools
It's Only a Paper Moon 02:08 Tools
They Didn't Believe Me 02:55 Tools
'Tain't Cold 02:39 Tools
Japanese Sandman 03:14 Tools
Embraceable You (10-23-30) 03:08 Tools
On Revival Day - Part 1 (09-26-30) 02:39 Tools
Chinatown, My Chinatown 03:15 Tools
Corinne Corrina 02:59 Tools
I Used To Love Her In The Moonlight (Vocal) 03:05 Tools
Sally, Won't You Come Back? 04:19 Tools
Delirium (1927) 03:05 Tools
I Ain't Got Nobody 02:55 Tools
Robins And Roses 03:03 Tools
The Peanut Vendor (01-23-31) 02:46 Tools
On Revival Day - Part 2 (09-26-30) 02:38 Tools
Oh! Peter, You're So Nice 03:01 Tools
Linda (11-06-30) 03:05 Tools
Wait For The Happy Ending 02:39 Tools
Bass Ale Blues 03:05 Tools
The Darktown Strutters' Ball 02:59 Tools
Ida Sweet As Apple Cider 02:47 Tools
Rockin' Chair (12-01-30) 03:10 Tools
Sweet Jennie Lee (10-23-30) 02:43 Tools
Flag That Train (05-04-25) 03:07 Tools
Smiles 03:22 Tools
They All Laughed - Red Nichols & His Orchestra/The 3 Songies 02:45 Tools
Make my cot where the cot-cot-cotton grows 03:23 Tools
How Come You Do Me Like You Do? (12-10-30) 03:00 Tools
(Back Home Again in) Indiana 02:36 Tools
I'm Marching Home To You (Vocal) 03:11 Tools
Bugaboo (12-10-30) 03:11 Tools
That' Where The South Begins (11-18-30) 02:43 Tools
Poor Butterfly (vocal) 04:00 Tools
I Want to Be Happy 04:28 Tools
Indiana (04-18-29) 03:20 Tools
Wail Of The Winds - Remastered Version 1959 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 00:57 Tools
I Used To Love Her In The Moonlight (Instr.) 03:04 Tools
Corrinne Corrinna (12-10-30) 03:01 Tools
Blue Again (12-10-30) 03:12 Tools
Dear Old Southland (vocal) 04:28 Tools
MY Honey's Lovin' Arms (12-01-30) 02:55 Tools
Battle Hymn Of The Republic - Remastered Version 1959 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 02:43 Tools
Ida (Sweet As Apple Cider) 02:57 Tools
How Come You Do Me Like You Do? 02:50 Tools
Red Head Blues 02:51 Tools
Say It With Music 00:00 Tools
Sweet And Hot (01-16-31) 03:01 Tools
Carolina In The Morning 02:58 Tools
On The Alamo (Vocal) 02:58 Tools
We're Friends Again (12-12-30) 03:08 Tools
Yours And Mine (11-06-30) 02:54 Tools
At Last I'm Happy (01-05-31) 02:51 Tools
Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue 03:48 Tools
Feeling No Pain 03:07 Tools
Poor Butterfly (Instr.) 03:07 Tools
Who's Sorry Now? 06:58 Tools
Sugar Foot Strut 02:26 Tools
BLUE AGAIN 02:49 Tools
What Good Am I Without You? (12-12-30) 02:58 Tools
On The Alama (Instr.) 03:48 Tools
Corrinne Corrina 03:00 Tools
Limehouse Blues (vocal) 03:00 Tools
Mississippi Mud 02:02 Tools
If You Haven't Got A Girl 03:16 Tools
Back Home In Indiana - Remastered Version 1959 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 01:51 Tools
Honolulu Blues 02:49 Tools
When Kentucky Bids The World "Good Morning" (12-12-30) 03:09 Tools
I May Be Wrong, But I Think You're Wonderful 02:54 Tools
If You Haven't Got A Girl (01-05-31) 02:55 Tools
Chinese Blues 03:04 Tools
SAY IT WITH MUSIC (v S L) 00:00 Tools
Soon 03:22 Tools
YOU RASCAL YOU (v R M) 02:51 Tools
Stompin' Fool 03:00 Tools
At Sundown 03:16 Tools
When The Saints Go Marching In 06:58 Tools
Sweet Rosita (01-23-31) 03:02 Tools
SMILES (v S L) 03:16 Tools
Limehouse Blues (instr.) 03:00 Tools
Who? 00:00 Tools
Back Home Again in Indiana 03:15 Tools
Imagination (06-01-28) 02:59 Tools
Allah's Holiday (02-16-29) 03:19 Tools
You Said It (01-16-31) 03:04 Tools
American Patrol 06:58 Tools
Jimtown Blues (02-26-25) 03:03 Tools
FAN IT (vRM) 02:55 Tools
Nobody Knows (And Nobody Seems To Care) 04:06 Tools
Dear Old Southland (Instr.) 04:32 Tools
Can't Yo' Hear Me Calling, Caroline? (Vocal) 04:07 Tools
Peg O' Heart 00:57 Tools
On The Alamo (Instr.) 03:07 Tools
I'm Marching Home To You (Instr.) 03:06 Tools
The Camel Walk (11-11-25) 03:03 Tools
Ida! Sweet As Apple Cider 02:49 Tools
Nobody Knows 03:07 Tools
Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue (10-19-25) 01:31 Tools
Black Bottom Stomp 03:02 Tools
Strike Up the Band [the Tao of Groove Remix] 04:06 Tools
My Honey's Loving' Arms 02:54 Tools
Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula (Hawaiian Love Song) 00:57 Tools
Alice Blue Gown (02-16-29) 02:47 Tools
The Memphis Blues 03:13 Tools
Poor Buterfly (instr.) (03-02-28) 04:02 Tools
That's A-Plenty 02:56 Tools
Sometimes Im Happy 00:30 Tools
By the Shalimar 03:02 Tools
That's Where The South Begins 02:41 Tools
Things I Never Knew Till Now 00:30 Tools
Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble (07-03-30) 03:02 Tools
Tin Roof Blues 03:58 Tools
Suggar 03:20 Tools
O Sole Mio 03:25 Tools
Can't Yo' Hear Me Calling, Caroline? (Instr.) 03:05 Tools
Alabama Stomp (01-12-27) 02:57 Tools
Down And Out Blues (11-11-25) 03:01 Tools
Hurricane (01-12-27) 01:31 Tools
HALLELUJAH (from 'Hit the Deck') 03:02 Tools
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - Indiana (w Manny Klein on Trumpet) 1929 04:02 Tools
They All Laughed 02:44 Tools
Lassus Trombone 03:20 Tools
Deep Henderson 02:40 Tools
Red Nichols and His Five Pennies - A PRETTY GIRL IS LIKE A MELODY (1928) 00:30 Tools
Overnight Hop (Red Nichols) 03:20 Tools
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue 03:09 Tools
That's No Bargain (12-08-26) 02:45 Tools
Love Is the Sweetest Thing 02:44 Tools
Hallelujah! 02:44 Tools
THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE ME (v S L) 00:30 Tools
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - Ida,Sweet As Apple Cider 1927 03:03 Tools
Overnight Hop Boogie 03:05 Tools
Clarinet Marmalade - New York, February 18, 1932 02:47 Tools
I Used To Love Her In The Moonlight (vocal) (03-20-29) 03:03 Tools
Beale Street Blues 03:01 Tools
How Long, How Long Blues 03:05 Tools
I Wouldn't Be Where I Am If You Hadn't Gone Away 03:25 Tools
Poor Butterfly (vocal) - vocal 03:25 Tools
I'm Gonna Hang Around My Sugar (10-19-25) 03:17 Tools
Boneyard Shuffle (12-20-26) 03:17 Tools
Alabama Stomp (10-13-26) 03:01 Tools
Imagination (from The Artist) 02:56 Tools
I wouldn't Be Where I Am If You Hadn't Gone Away (05-04-25) 03:25 Tools
Limehouse Blues (Instrumental) 03:25 Tools
Somebody to Love Me 03:01 Tools
Royal Garden Blues 02:56 Tools
Oh, Didn't He Ramble 01:31 Tools
WAITIN' FOR THE EVENING MAIL (vJ.Davis) 02:44 Tools
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - By The Shalimar 1930 (Brunswick 4944) 02:56 Tools
Bugaboo 01:31 Tools
I Used To Love Her In The Moonlight (Instrumental) 03:03 Tools
EMBRACEABLE YOU (vDR) 03:03 Tools
I'm Tickled Pink With A Blue-Eyes Baby 02:44 Tools
Should I 03:05 Tools
The Girl from Utah: They didn't Believe me 03:17 Tools
Shake It And Brake It 03:09 Tools
You Rascal, You (Remastered) 03:09 Tools
My Future Just Passed 01:31 Tools
Wail Of The Winds 03:09 Tools
Shim-Me-Sha-Wabbie 03:09 Tools
Jimtown Blues 04:00 Tools
King Porter Stomp 04:00 Tools
Poor Buterfly (vocal) (03-02-28) 04:00 Tools
Buddy's Habits (12-20-26) 03:17 Tools
Delirium (02-11-27) 03:17 Tools
King Porter Stomp (02-26-25) 02:49 Tools
Flag That Train 02:59 Tools
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - Alabama Stomp 02:58 Tools
After You Get What You Want You Don't Want It 02:53 Tools
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - Japanese Sandman 1928 (Brunswick 6821) 03:16 Tools
Clarinet Marmelade 02:59 Tools
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - Ida Sweet as Apple Cider 1927 02:59 Tools
I GOT RHYTHM (vDR) 02:56 Tools
KEEP A SONG IN YOUR SOUL (v J T) 03:03 Tools
Someday Sweetheart 27-1-1927 01:31 Tools
Davenport Blues (Charleston Chasers) 25-2-1927 03:17 Tools
Bulding A Nest For Mary (vocal) 03:09 Tools
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - On The Alamo 01:31 Tools
I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling 02:40 Tools
The Sheik Of Araby (07-03-30) 03:17 Tools
Stampede (10-13-26) 03:17 Tools
Pensacola (01-08-26) 03:17 Tools
I Got Rythmn 03:09 Tools
Squeeze Me 03:17 Tools
My Sweetie Went Away 03:17 Tools
My Honney's Lovin' Arms 03:17 Tools
I'm Marching Home To You (vocal) (03-20-29) 03:17 Tools
Hurricane (11-10-26) 03:17 Tools
Lots O' Mama (05-?-26) 03:17 Tools
I Used To Love Her In The Moonlight (instr.) (03-20-29) 02:46 Tools
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - That's No Bargain 02:59 Tools
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies, Miff Mole - How Come You Do Me 03:15 Tools
I May Be Wrong, But I think You're Wonderful (08-20-29) 03:01 Tools
Entry of the Gladiators 03:05 Tools
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - Say It With Music 1929 (Brunswick 4651) 03:25 Tools
A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody (10-02-28) 03:01 Tools
Strike Up The Band (01-17-30) 02:52 Tools
Lullaby In Ragtime 03:25 Tools
Stampede 02:52 Tools
Can't You Hear Me Calling, Caroline? (vocal) (03-02-28) 02:52 Tools
WAITING FOR A HAPPY ENDING (vSL) 03:16 Tools
That Da Da Strain 00:00 Tools
Red Nichols and His Five Pennies - BALLIN' THE JACK (1930) 02:59 Tools
Easy Living 03:27 Tools
Wail Of The Winds - Theme Song 03:17 Tools
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - Nobody's Sweetheart 1928 (Brunswick 3854)INCOMPLETE 02:59 Tools
Bugle Call Rag (Remastered) 02:59 Tools
On Revival Day, Part 2 02:37 Tools
On Revival Day, Part 1 02:39 Tools
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies, Jack Teagarden - Dinah 1929 02:52 Tools
Bugle Call Rag (Five Pennies) 12-1-1927 02:54 Tools
There Ain't No Land Like Dixieland 02:40 Tools
Feelin' No Pain vers.1 (`27) 01:31 Tools
There's Where the South Begins 01:31 Tools
Davenport Blues - 1927 03:15 Tools
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies, Bix Beiderbecke - Sugar 02:40 Tools
I Used To Love Her In The Moonlight 02:40 Tools
A Hot Time In The Old Town 02:40 Tools
I Have to Have You 02:40 Tools
The Five Pennies 03:28 Tools
Black Bottom Stomp (11-10-26) 03:28 Tools
Bug-A-Boo 03:17 Tools
Building A Nest For Mary (Vocal) 03:17 Tools
They Didn't Believe Me (08-27-29) 03:17 Tools
Naughty Waltz 03:15 Tools
Davenport Blues (02-11-27) 03:15 Tools
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - Roses Of Picardy 1929 (Brunswick 4286) 03:17 Tools
Nobody's Rose (01-08-26) 03:17 Tools
Dinah (04-18-29) 03:17 Tools
Can't You Hear Me Calling, Caroline? (instr.) (03-02-28) 03:17 Tools
I'm Gonna Hang Around My Sugar 03:17 Tools
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - Naughty Waltz 03:17 Tools
Nobody Knows (09-09-29) 02:42 Tools
I Can't Believe That You're 02:42 Tools
Shim-Me-Sha Wabble 02:57 Tools
Someday, Sweetheart 02:53 Tools
Side By Side 03:08 Tools
After You've Gone (Charleston Chasers) 4-1-1927 03:27 Tools
You're The Greatest Discovery - Since 1492 02:52 Tools
Haunting Blues 02:42 Tools
You Rascal You 02:40 Tools
The Camel Walk 02:40 Tools
China Boy (07-02-30) 02:40 Tools
Building A Nest For Mary (vocal) (03-20-29) 02:40 Tools
Everybody Loves My Baby - Chicago, November 28, 1932 02:40 Tools
My Gal Sal 18-5-1927 02:40 Tools
Goofus 02:40 Tools
One Sweet Letter From You (Kate Smith-vocal) 14-2-1927 02:40 Tools
Building A Nest For Mary 02:40 Tools
Slippin' Around (Red & Miff Stompers) (2) 12-10-1927 02:40 Tools
Pennies from Heaven 03:17 Tools
Hurricane (Five Pennies) 3-3-1927 03:17 Tools
Cornfed (Five Pennies) 20-6-1927 03:17 Tools
Limehouse Blues (instr.) (05-31-28) 03:17 Tools
Can't Yo' Hear Me Calling, Caroline? (Voc) 03:17 Tools
You Rascal You 03:17 Tools
Strike Up The Band(The Tao Of Groove Remix) 03:17 Tools
I'm Marching Home To You (instr.) (03-20-29) 03:17 Tools
Peg Of My Heart 03:17 Tools
The Camel Walk 03:17 Tools
After You Get What 03:17 Tools
I'll See You In My Dreams (06-07-29) 03:17 Tools
Limehouse Blues (vocal) (05-31-28) 03:17 Tools
Can't Yo' Hear Me Calling, Caroline (Inst) 03:17 Tools
On The Alamo (instr.) (04-18-29) 03:17 Tools
China Boy (07-02-30) 03:17 Tools
Farewell Blues 25-2-1927 03:17 Tools
Mama's Gone, Goodbye 03:17 Tools
Alabama Stomp (Five Pennies) 3-3-1927 03:17 Tools
I Can't Give You Anything But Love (05-31-28) 03:17 Tools
Feeling No Pain (Five Pennies) 15-8-1927 03:17 Tools
Harlem Twist (06-21-28) 03:17 Tools
Delirium 18-5-1927 03:17 Tools
Stars Fell On Alabama 03:17 Tools
I Never Knew (02-01-29) 03:17 Tools
Somebody To Love Me (10-22-29) 03:17 Tools
The Sheikh Of Araby 03:01 Tools
Original Dixieland One-Step (06-01-28) 03:01 Tools
Poor Butterfly V 03:01 Tools
You Said It 03:01 Tools
Back Beat 02:49 Tools
There's A Creadle In Caroline 02:49 Tools
Midnight In Moscow 04:25 Tools
Feelin No Pain 02:53 Tools
Poor Butterfly Inst 02:53 Tools
On The Alamo (Instrumental) 02:53 Tools
Imagination 8-9-1927 02:49 Tools
The Penny Jumps 02:46 Tools
Medley: A. Honey , B: After You’ve Gone 02:46 Tools
Lots O'Mama 02:46 Tools
Rockin' Chair 02:46 Tools
I Live Again - Because I'm In Love Again 02:48 Tools
Dear Old Southland (Instrumental) 02:48 Tools
Ballin’ The Jack 03:01 Tools
A Girl Friend Of A Boy Friend Of Mine 03:01 Tools
EMBRACEABLE YOU (vDR)#2 02:37 Tools
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Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols (May 8, 1905–June 28, 1965) a United States jazz cornet player, became one of the busiest phonograph session musicians of his era, making hundreds of recording sessions of jazz and hot dance band music. In the 1920s alone he appeared on over 4,000 recordings, working with almost every important musician of his time. Though his style of playing was influenced by Bix Beiderbecke, Nichols, an excellent sight reader, was a considered a better, more polished musician. Born in Utah, Nichols studied music under his father, a college music professor, and mastered a variety of instruments. After working in a number of pit orchestras, he joined a Midwestern band called The Syncopating Seven. In 1923 Nichols moved to New York and soon teamed up with trombonist Miff Mole. Nichols most famously recorded under the name Red Nichols and His Five Pennies, but the same group of musicians also recorded under many different pseudonyms, including the Louisiana Rhythm Kings, the Charleston Seven, the Arkansas Travelers, Miff Mole and His Molers, the Hottentots, and the Red Heads. These sessions at first featured trombonist Miff Mole with Jimmy Dorsey on alto and clarinet, and later in the decade featured a virtual who's who of great white jazz musicians including Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Jack Teagarden, Pee Wee Russell, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Adrian Rollini and Gene Krupa. Nichols survived the Depression by working in Broadway shows, even leading the pit orchestra for two of George Gershwin's shows; "Girl Crazy" and "Strike Up the Band". In 1934 Red fronted a band for a radio show sponsored by Kellogg's Cereal and led many studio orchestras, including one for the Bob Hope Show. Around 1940 Nichols took advantage of the swing craze and tried updating his sound. The orchestra soon floundered and Nichols sold the band in 1942. Nichols briefly found work as a member of the Casa Loma Orchestra before retiring to Hollywood, where he led several small groups throughout the rest of the 1940s and into the 1950s. The highly-fictionalized 1959 film, The Five Pennies, starring Danny Kaye, prompted Nichols to put together a new Five Pennies. Nichols died suddenly from a heart attack while on tour in Las Vegas in 1965. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.