Keith Nichols
Keith Nichols was an English jazz multi-instrumentalist and arranger, a player of the piano, trombone, reeds, and accordion.
Biography
Born in Ilford, Essex, England, 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. 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 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 with Alan Cohen. Other artists Nichols worked with include Digby Fairweather, Harry Gold, Richard Pite and Claus Jacobi. He died on 21 January 2021, after contracting COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom while being treated for another condition, at The Royal London Hospital.
Discography
Paramount Theatre Orchestra Lolly PopsDreamland SyncopatorsTerritory Jazz
Julian Vincent and Keith NicholsMorton to Mozart
Keith Nichols' Cotton Club Gang and Janice Day with Guy BarkerI Like To Do Things For You
Keith Nichols and the Cotton Club OrchestraSyncopated Jamboree Henderson Stomp Harlem's Arabian Nights
Keith Nichols' Little DevilsThe Charmful Little Armful
Keith Nichols and the Blue DevilsKansas City Breakdown
Keith Nichols' Earthbound SpiritsHarlem Madness
Keith Nichols' Collegians Collegiate Rhythm
Mike Lovell and Keith NicholsDixieland at the Thornton Little Theatre
Keith Nichols' Jazz Artists and Northern SinfoniaA Tribute to Paul Whiteman
Thomas "Spats" Langham / Keith Nichols / Richard PiteLondon Omnibus
The Nichols-Duffee International Jazz Orchestra
- ''One More Time''